[COLUG] Re: Video Cards

[Rob Funk]

Mark Erbaugh wrote:
> I saw the announcement on this list that ATI was opening up their
> drivers. However, when I went to their site, all I could find was their
> proprietary stuff. In fact, the driver it recommended had been updated
> on June 18.  Are the open drivers available yet?

Certainly.  In fact there are two branches, the ati/radeon branch and the 
radeonhd branch.

http://www.x.org/wiki/radeon
ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/individual/driver/xf86-video-ati-6.8.191.tar.bz2

http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonhd
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/driver/xf86-video-radeonhd
ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/individual/driver/xf86-video-radeonhd-1.2.1.tar.bz2


The key when looking for open-source code is to go to the relevant 
open-source code projects, not to the hardware vendor.

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