On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 07:34, David S. Miller wrote:
> This is old news, they opensource the drivers at a later date,
> this is how it's always worked with ATI.
Note that ATI now has a binary driver available that supports the 8500,
written by their German development group. Available via their standard
"find a driver" page, using Linux as OS. See, for example,
http://mirror.ati.com/support/products/pc/radeon8500/linux/radeon8500linuxdrivers.html?cboOS=LinuxXFree86&cboProducts=RADEON+8500LE&cmdNext=GO%21
The scripts that build a kernel module and link it against their library
work pretty well and are, to their credit, not impossibly tied to one
distro over another. :-) I run Slackware.
ktk@madmax:~$ glxgears
10474 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2094.800 FPS
10797 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2159.400 FPS
Kris
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