[Dri-devel] M10 support
Who is working on support for the M10? Anyone? I'm about to get one and I'm a little worried about using the ati drivers since they can crash the system on suspend/resume. This is a laptop system so I'm going to want suspend/resume and I don't want to be restarting X every time I resume. I could help with adding the support. I'm a decent programmer (although this is something I've never tried). But I thought I'd ask if anyone else was working on this yet. I would rather get the technical info from someone on the project then have to ask ati for it. I imagine the M10 support would be a specialization of the rv350 support. But I could be wrongI'm new to this and have always bought nvidia cards in the past. Jason --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
Re: [Dri-devel] M10 support
xfree86 and DRI CVS have 2D support for m10 already. 3D is not possible as no one has sponsored development of an opensource driver and no one has the databooks for the r300 yet. So, if you want 3D, you'll have to use the ati binary driver. Alex --- Jason Dagit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Who is working on support for the M10? Anyone? I'm about to get one and I'm a little worried about using the ati drivers since they can crash the system on suspend/resume. This is a laptop system so I'm going to want suspend/resume and I don't want to be restarting X every time I resume. I could help with adding the support. I'm a decent programmer (although this is something I've never tried). But I thought I'd ask if anyone else was working on this yet. I would rather get the technical info from someone on the project then have to ask ati for it. I imagine the M10 support would be a specialization of the rv350 support. But I could be wrongI'm new to this and have always bought nvidia cards in the past. Jason --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
Re: [Dri-devel] M10 support
Alex Deucher wrote (on Sat, 4 Oct 2003 at 08:49 -0700): xfree86 and DRI CVS have 2D support for m10 already. 3D is not possible as no one has sponsored development of an opensource driver and no one has the databooks for the r300 yet. So, if you want 3D, you'll have to use the ati binary driver. Are you sure about xfree86, I checked their website last night and they list support via the ati driver, which I took to mean the driver provided by ati. I checked the status page for dri and nothing is mentioned about the M10. Shouldn't that page be updated if you have 2d support now? Has anyone tried to get the databooks for the M10 or 9600 yet? How hard is this? Do you guys have an established reputation with ati? I noticed in the FAQ that it said you don't give out the info once they give it to you. Why is that? And why do they only give out the info to companies. Seems a bit silly. Could I just claim to have my own company and get the data? Why yes, I'm the CEO of Just for DRI, a new company that is making drivers for DRI. Ya know, or something equally silly. When you say sponsored development do you mean monetary sponsorship, or do you mean something else? Thanks for the reply, sorry I have so many questions that are probably really silly. Thanks, Jason Alex --- Jason Dagit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Who is working on support for the M10? Anyone? I'm about to get one and I'm a little worried about using the ati drivers since they can crash the system on suspend/resume. This is a laptop system so I'm going to want suspend/resume and I don't want to be restarting X every time I resume. I could help with adding the support. I'm a decent programmer (although this is something I've never tried). But I thought I'd ask if anyone else was working on this yet. I would rather get the technical info from someone on the project then have to ask ati for it. I imagine the M10 support would be a specialization of the rv350 support. But I could be wrongI'm new to this and have always bought nvidia cards in the past. Jason --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
Re: [Dri-devel] M10 support
--- Jason Dagit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex Deucher wrote (on Sat, 4 Oct 2003 at 08:49 -0700): xfree86 and DRI CVS have 2D support for m10 already. 3D is not possible as no one has sponsored development of an opensource driver and no one has the databooks for the r300 yet. So, if you want 3D, you'll have to use the ati binary driver. Are you sure about xfree86, I checked their website last night and they list support via the ati driver, which I took to mean the driver provided by ati. I checked the status page for dri and nothing is mentioned about the M10. Shouldn't that page be updated if you have 2d support now? the DRI and xfree86 recently synced up so, they are, right now, for most intents and purposes the same code base. Right now there is 2D support only for r3xx series cards. I haven't checked the web pages in a while. the ati driver is the name of the xfree86 driver for ati cards. it's not provided by ati although they do contribute code to it. Has anyone tried to get the databooks for the M10 or 9600 yet? How hard is this? Do you guys have an established reputation with ati? I heard the gatos people got the databooks for the r3xx cards but I'm not sure if that includes 3D registers as well or just 2d and overlay stuff. many xfree86 and DRI developers have a good relationship with ati. ati contributes quite a bit of code. I'm not sure if anyone has tried to get databooks for the 3D stuff yet; I don't even know if ati will release them. I noticed in the FAQ that it said you don't give out the info once they give it to you. Why is that? And why do they only give out the info to companies. Seems a bit silly. Could I just claim to have my own company and get the data? Why yes, I'm the CEO of Just for DRI, a new company that is making drivers for DRI. Ya know, or something equally silly. If you want the databooks, you'll need to register on their website. if you are not a company, then put in something like opensource developer or hobbyist. When you say sponsored development do you mean monetary sponsorship, or do you mean something else? Yes monetary sponsorship. writing a 3D driver for a new chip like the r3xx chips is no small undertaking. it's a lot of work. the weather channel funded the development of the r2xx drivers. Thanks for the reply, sorry I have so many questions that are probably really silly. Thanks, Jason __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
