Jason Self wrote: > On Jan 6, 2010, at 11:59 AM, Dmitry Samoyloff <dsamoyl...@yandex.ru> > > wrote: > > There's still no libre 3D support for ATI (at least for modern chips). > > The radeonhd driver site says 3D acceleration via Mesa is supported > for r5xx/rs690 GPUs (X1xxx) and is in progress for r6xx/r7xx GPUs > (HD2xxx-HD4xxx) but I don't need 3D myself, so I've never fully looked > into the matter.
Moreover, there's no 2D acceleration also for the newer ATI chips (without firmwares), Xorg works slow as hell :-( I believe it is a community pressure (http://www.fsf.org/photos/rms-sign.jpg) which is lead ATI to releasing their specs. However that was not enough: required firmwares remains non-free. Currently I am trying to find out what's wrong with ATI's blobs. About a year ago ATI released GPL-ed disassembling tools for their AtomBIOS, so the source code of firmwares should be acceptable in theory. However I can't find the license information for the disassembled code. Can anyone on the list to shed some light on this situation? -- Regards, Dmitry Samoyloff _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list gNewSense-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
