Re: r500 progress?

2007-04-22 Thread Magnus Ahlberg
I am very curious about the status of r500 support. I hope I don't offend anyone by asking. If there is someone currently working on this, I want to know if there is any way for a layman to help out? I would love to contribute in any way possible! Cheers, Magnus Ahlberg 2007/3/19, Jerome Glisse

Re: r500 - where to start?

2007-01-10 Thread Magnus Ahlberg
I found a couple of things but i am not familiar enought with modesetting, so i am taking time to understand all this. We may need to start somethings similar to nouveau to bring more attention and more people on this. I fear that most current dri dev can't work on this due to NDA or lack of

Re: r500 - where to start?

2007-01-09 Thread Magnus Ahlberg
Ah, I figured almost everything except where to get that adress from, I'll try it out and see if I can catch anything useful. 2007/1/8, Jerome Glisse [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 1/8/07, Magnus Ahlberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From limited informations we got on those chips we miss the 2D video

r500 - where to start?

2006-12-23 Thread Magnus Ahlberg
I know that there has been some discussion about the r500 chip and how tough it will be to create a working driver for it. However, I for one would love to see an open alternative to the fglrx and I want to know, where to start? I own a laptop with a X1600 mobility radeon card. The current status