On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 00:42, Kristofer T. Karas wrote:
> 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/radeon8500 \
> linuxdrivers.html?cboOS=LinuxXFree86&cboProducts=RADEON+8500 \
> LE&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
This is slower than the current DRI can do ;-)
dual Athlon MP 1900+ (but all XFree and Mesa stuff is single threaded
currently):
Mesa/demos> ./gears
r200CreateScreen
6465 frames in 5.000 seconds = 1293.000 FPS
11955 frames in 5.000 seconds = 2391.000 FPS
11954 frames in 5.000 seconds = 2390.800 FPS
11955 frames in 5.000 seconds = 2391.000 FPS
11954 frames in 5.000 seconds = 2390.800 FPS
I wonder why nobody point to the place were "the real development" is?
dri.sourceforge.net
or the new test site (under construktion)
http://lfm.sourceforge.net/dritest/
Xv is supported with the current trunk, too.
If you need the video capabilities take a look at the GATOS page.
http://gatos.sourceforge.net/
Cheers,
Dieter
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