Dave Reed wrote:
Does anyone know if the open source developers plan to continueI've seen no plans to stop the 3D work on the DRI lists. You can ask there to learn more.
developing drivers for the new cards even those these binary drivers
will be out there? Is ATI at least still releasing specs for their new
http://dri.sourceforge.net
I know they have done a lot of work on R200 drivers recently.
cards so drivers can be written (that's the reason I switched fromSame here. but it was worse. I went to NVIDIA (from ATI) because they promissed 3D support, and even released some code. Then they went to a non-DRI, closed driver and ATI started opening up. So I switched back to ATI. Now I see ATI is not as open as they appeared to be. But at least some progress on a R200 driver has been made. I may get one soon :)
NVidia to ATI - I want to be able to upgrade my machine to the newer
2D support will surely continue. So XFree will work. Of course the XFree 2D driver release is a bit slow, so todays brand new card probably won't work for a few months.Red Hat versions w/o worrying about the driver not working with them). If open source drivers are being written, I can be assured that evenutally I can make that upgrade w/o losing the use of my graphics card.
-Thomas
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