On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Michael Born wrote: >Please excuse my not very DRI related question. > >Is there an official statement from ATI regarding the product cycle of their >binary 3D drivers for Linux x86? >In an interview at www.sharkyextreme.com an ATI person stated that they will >release 8-10 Windows driver over the year. >Their Linux driver is dated 29th november 2002 and has a lot of problems as I >read in the Suse mailing list. >If there is no comment on the future support of this driver - it is worthless >because nobody knows if the ATI hardware will ever be usable.
Questions and comments pertaining to ATI's binary drivers don't really have a place here. Such comments should be directed to ATI's online feedback webpage near where you download the drivers themselves. While ATI's binary drivers use the DRI infrastructure, they are unrelated to the DRI project, and this mailing list. In other words, nobody hear can help you. >I really would like to buy an ATI card (9100 or 9500), but with no driver >support I'll have to stay with Nvidia cards. The Radeon 9000 is supported by DRI, and I just submitted a patch to XFree86 last week which got added to XFree86 CVS shortly after which adds support for the Radeon 9100, however it is not tested on actual Radeon 9100 hardware yet. The 9100 is a R200 board so it should work, but no promises. If nobody has done it already, I can bring the latest PCI ID changes over from XFree86 CVS head and commit them to DRI-CVS. -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
