[vox-tech] [FWD: [Xpert]Radeon 8500/7500 support]

[Brian Lavender]

Since there's been talk about ATI boards, I thought this
message would be of interest. This came across on the XFree86
xpert mailing list back last September. I am really happy
about ATI's current stand with their cards and Linux.

brian

----- Forwarded message from Michael Smith <msmith@ati.com> -----

From: Michael Smith <msmith@ati.com>
To: "'devel@xfree86.org'" <devel@XFree86.Org>,
Cc: xpert@XFree86.Org
Subject: RE: [Xpert]Radeon 8500/7500 support
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 10:17:15 -0400

A patch was submitted today to XFree86 for the Radeon 8500, 7500 and
Mobility Radeon 7500.  This support dual-head via Xinerama.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Ani Joshi [mailto:ajoshi@shell.unixbox.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 9:21 PM
To: Patrick McLean
Cc: xpert@xfree86.org; devel@xfree86.org
Subject: Re: [Xpert]Radeon 8500/7500 support


I have documentation and a test driver for these boards and could add
support, but judging from recent history in the ati driver, ATI seems to
be adding support for things themselves.  Can anyone comment on this?
Should I bother with adding support or just wait until ATI does it?


ani



On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Patrick McLean wrote:

> Does anyone know whether there will probably be at least 2d support for
> the Radeon 8500/7500 by the
> time they're released (I am trying to make up my mind whether or not to
> preorder one, but since I use
> Linux 95% of the time (only windows for gaming and digital cameral
> unloading) I don't want to buy one
> until there is 2d support under XFree.
>
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