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Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

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OSS drivers for amd.ati cards coming

According to this amd press release

Amd/Ati will release source code and hardware specs for the X1000 and HD2000 videocard series working together with Novell's SuSE Linux engineering team.

First they intend to focus on 2D , but 3D and video playback acceleration will also be included.

looks like my next videocard will be from Amd/Ati instead of nvidia .....

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2007-09-11 20:36:53)

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kagerato

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Registered: 2007-09-10

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Re: OSS drivers for amd.ati cards coming

Very good news; let's hope they stick to their word.  Video has been a rather lame market for free software with Intel as the only major vendor offering GPU specs.

If everything goes smoothly, this might eventually cause nvidia to open their specs as well.

wuischke

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From: Suisse Romande

Registered: 2007-01-06

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Re: OSS drivers for amd.ati cards coming

Intel [...] offering GPU specs

Afaik, this is wrong. They do not offer the specs iirc, but tungsten is working on Open Source drivers for them.

Their linux driver support is very good and I bought a intel based notebook for this reason as well, but even though the drivers should work for bsd or solaris as well, other free operating systems not using X11 (e.g. Syllable or Haiku) will have a harder time writing a driver without the specs.

Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

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Re: OSS drivers for amd.ati cards coming

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=37067

Discussion of this AMD news was started in another thread already - please continue discussion over there.