Avivo Linux R500 Driver v0.1.0 Coming

Phil Meyer pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com
Tue Jul 10 16:15:16 UTC 2007


Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Mike Chambers <mike <at> miketc.com> writes:
>   
>> One test release has already been out but with lack of PCI ID's , it
>> didn't do any good.  So hopefully this next release will be able to be
>> isntalled on a lot more systems and be tested.
>>     
>
> What should be mentioned is that this is still 2D only!
>
> Please don't mislead users into thinking they'll get Free 3D acceleration when 
> buying r5xx family cards. (The Phoronix articles also fail to highlight this 
> important restriction.)
>
>         Kevin Kofler
>
>   
Understood.  But I will be happy just to get 1920x1200 resolution for 2D 
back! :)

My terminals look 'fat' at 1600x1200 which is the the max I can seem to 
get with the vesa driver. :(




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