Bertrand Marc schrieb: > Patrick Matthäi a écrit : >> Hello, >> >> I just saw this today: >> >> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_r500_legacy&num=1 >> >> Fact: >> AMD will drop the support with 9.4 for all cards which are older than >> the HD 2000 series to focus on newer card. 9.3 will be the last >> release which supports 300-500 cards. >> >> How annoying.. >> >> Also we are not able to support the legacy driver until Squeeze, due >> of Xorg ABI bumps (incompatible with Xorg 1.5.99) and the kernel >> module is also not every time in a good way patchable.. >> >> Comments? >> > Hello, > > I would have plenty of comments about AMD, but let's stick with fglrx...
Yeah and this does not help anyone :) > On our end I think we just need to make it clear to users still using > R300-500. This would be one solution. > As you said 9.3 will probably not work with squeeze, so it has > no sense to upload a legacy driver, hasn't it ? Depends on how fast Squeeze releases and with which kernel and if we are able to patch it. But the biggest problem is the Xorg incompatibility. 9-2 does not fit with xserver 1.5 yet. We could just still hope that 9-3 will do so, then we had a chance.. > > I am curious to see what commercial distribution (as Ubuntu) will do > about it. Maybe they'll patch 9.3 as long as possible and we will be > able to use their work ? Kanotix is the commercial one, not Ubuntu. Anyway I CCed the maintainer list of the Ubuntu fglrx maintainers. What are your plans? Cheers. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss