Re: ATI Linux Driver Packages
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 05:34:57PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Jun 2003 23:16:12 -0500, Adam Majer wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 09:42:10PM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote:
> > > Are these drivers much better then than XFree ones or is there a reason
> > > to be promoting nonfree drivers? I orginally packaged up the nvidia ones
> > > in the way they are done due to the fact the XFree ones had no 3d
> > > acceleration at all and that it was illegal to distribute nvidia's
> > > binaries directly. Also binary only drivers will taint the kernel and
> > > can cause the user to have trouble getting help with kernel related
> > > issues. I got rid of my nvidia cards (some poor sucker took them) and
> > > now use only ATI cards. 8)
> >
> > I think you might be the "sucker". :) [ok, it's not a flame thing].
> > Does the radeon driver support 3D accel for cards beyond the R1xx level?
> > ie. something like Radeon 7500. I don't think that Radeon 8500, 8800, etc..a
> > are supported since they use the former FireGL GPU. The drivers from
> > ATI fill the gap to support FireGL, and yes they are better. They
> > can be used with Maya etc.. [at least it says that on ATI's site.]
>
> 3D acceleration exists for r[12]xx and r250; I'm not sure whether it
> exists for the rv280. Indeed, it's in the stock XFree86 4.3 debs
> previously distributed by myself, now distributed by the XSF.
As i understand it, the rv280 is just an rv250 with agpx8 support. As
such it should be supported without problems. Maybe you would have to
fake pci ids though.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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