On Jan 6, 2010, at 6:42 PM, Dmitry Samoyloff <dsamoyl...@yandex.ru>
wrote:
Jason Self wrote:
Moreover, there's no 2D acceleration also for the newer ATI chips
(without
firmwares), Xorg works slow as hell :-(
In reviewing the radeonhd changelog for version 1.3 they say that 2D
acceleration (EXA) is enabled by default now, except on RV740.
I bet they are using non-free firmware for this.
I haven't looked yet, but can check into it when I get home.
I think that AMD's level of involvement with the free software
community is enough to give them my money when I buy video cards.
I suppose, most of subscribers of this mailing list (including me)
would like
to use their hardware with gNewSense OS. Thus I wouldn't recommend
yet ATI
GPUs for users needing 3D and appreciating a software freedom.
I thought radeonhd was free software. IIRC, it's available in the
gNewSense repository and my video card works just fine with it &
gNewSense (I needed to get a newer version though.) So if not AMD,
then what?
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