2009/2/24 Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler@chello.at:
Ian Malone wrote:
Since AMD have apparently released the specs needed to write an open driver for them I thought it might be worth supporting them this time around, but I'm not sure what the current state of ATI support looks like.
For the Free Software drivers (i.e. NOT the proprietary fglrx): http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon
In short, r1xx up to r5xx series are now supported with 2D (XRender) and 3D (OpenGL) acceleration. In marketing names, that's up to X1950 (rule of thumb: if it doesn't have "HD" in it, it should be supported - the HD* models (r6xx/r7xx) and the X2300 HD which appears to be some sort of hybrid between the r5xx architecture and some r6xx or r7xx one are not supported).
Okay, sounds quite promising if I can find the right generation of card then. Thanks to all who replied.
- - imalone