On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 21:40:13 +0100
Alexander Stohr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay, driver version 2.5.1 has gone life.
Now the FireGL, the Built by ATI _and_
(newly) the Powered by ATI boards will run.
will these drivers coexist nicely with DRI ? if so, I'd like to try
them, just for
On Don, 2002-11-21 at 16:33, Alexander Stohr wrote:
So this passed the news wires today:
ATI drives graphics performance for Linux users with new unified
driver
http://mirror.ati.com/companyinfo/press/2002/4574.html
The drivers can now be downloaded for free at www.ati.com
(see e.g.
Title: RE: [Dri-devel] New ATI FireGL drivers announced
What about support for other architectures, in particular PPC?
The Apple as the #1 PPC platform (okay there might be several others)
does have an AGP slot and to my knowledge there is a nice ATI history
for the MacOS. Not bad the idea
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 02:24:34PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
On Don, 2002-11-21 at 16:33, Alexander Stohr wrote:
Let me express that i do _not_ object to any of the DRI-Devel works.
DRI did great job and it resolves for situations where ATI
cant provide solutions as of today and possibly
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 16:56:05 +
José Fonseca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I already had my [unrelated] bad experiences with proprietary
solutions and that's a path that I do my best to avoid, spite often
having to choose to less featureful solutions. This is my stance - I
don't expect that
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 02:44:51PM +0100, Alexander Stohr wrote:
What about support for other architectures, in particular PPC?
The Apple as the #1 PPC platform (okay there might be several others)
does have an AGP slot and to my knowledge there is a nice ATI history
for the MacOS. Not bad
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 04:33:47PM +0100, Alexander Stohr wrote:
Hello,
i know that DRI is targeting open source development,
but i know myselves that for a developer there can
always be a need for a 2nd source driver reference.
There are several other reasons why an alternate
Linux driver
Let me express that i do _not_ object to any of the DRI-Devel works.
DRI did great job and it resolves for situations where ATI
cant provide solutions as of today and possibly long term.
Just saying embedded Radeon chipsets, ATI chipsets on BSD,
old ATI chipsets prior to the R200 and further
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 05:50:51PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
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| Quote from the webpage (URL above):
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| The new unified driver provides robust OpenGL® 2.0 support for many of ATIs
| award-winning graphics boards including:
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| Does these drivers _really_ have OGL 2.0 support?
Couldn't
By reading the readme, xinerma+dri is not yet supported. Is support
planned for this? if so, when?
that's something that'll have to be built into the core X infrastructure,
from what I hear.
maybe X 5.0 will have some capability for that; but don't hold your breath.
if you need it, try XiG's
Title: RE: [Dri-devel] New ATI FireGL drivers announced
By reading the readme, xinerma+dri is not yet supported. Is support
planned for this? if so, when?
To be honest, i just dont know because i am
not that deeply involved in 2D development.
Anyways, i wouldnt be allowed to talk about
Hi
Does this driver works with Powered By Ati cards??
The previus driver didnt work giving the error that is not a Build By Ati
card. Here in my City is impossible to find a BBA ATI, so i had to buy a
Powercolor (powered by) ATI 8500. The nvidia binary only driver works with
any brand of card
I only think it works with built by ati cards, howeverI don't have a
built by ati card and I was able to get it to work, but you risk
damaging your card. What you have to do is get a built by ATI Bios and
burn it to your card, and then you got yourself a Power By ATI Card that
says it was
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Alexander Stohr wrote:
I tried XVideo support and it showed that the CPU usage of TOP
was higher than that of the video player application. Features
that you will on FireGL boards are Overlays and PBuffer rendering
support.
This is getting off-topic but, FYI, X-Video
Never mind. I'm wrong.
Adam
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Alexander Stohr wrote:
I tried XVideo support and it showed that the CPU usage of TOP
was higher than that of the video player application. Features
that you will on FireGL boards are
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