[OTs] free video hardware

[A.J. Bonnema]

Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 05:20:02 +0200,
>   "A.J. Bonnema" <abonnema at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> I am not clear on the series in ATI. FC5 identified my card as r430. Is 
>> the 9200 one of the r300 based cards?
> 
> The 9200 uses an r200 series chip. ATI released the specs (or at least most
> of them) for how to use this chip so that a free driver could be written.
> In contrast the r300 driver is being done by reverse engineering.
> I don't know if r400s are similar enough to r300s to use that driver.
> 
> You can use google to find the project and get some general information about
> that project without too much trouble and this may be a better way to get your
> questions answered.
> 

Thanks a lot, m8. I will do that.

Guus.
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