New G4 PB/Radeon 9000 War Stories?

[Markus Deistler]

Hi,=20

Max Wiberg wrote:

> I have put his question to the list and gotten ZERO answers.

Probably the wrong list, ATI provides its own linux-drivers for the
PC-versions of its graphic-board and Intel-Linux, see

http://mirror.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon-linux.html?cboOS=3DLinuxXF=
r
ee86&cboProducts=3DRADEON+9000&eula=3D&choice=3Dagree&cmdNext=3DNext

There you'll read 'works on Linux/x86 only', so they just provide a binary.
What a deal, I don't buy any ati-cards anymore, whenever I have a choice
(unfortunately I don't have a choice with PBs).

Sooner or later someone at xfree86 will have done enough reversed
engineering and a truly free X-driver for newer Radeon-stuff will be
available, but it will take a while ...;

Oh, and I looked at Nvidia's homepage, that manufacturer seems to provide
its own Linux-drivers, too, but even as source, so there is a chance to
compile it for non-Intel-platforms. That said, nvidia's Linux drivers come
with their own license, so YDL mustn't distribute those drivers ...; But a
source-package is much better than 'Linux/x86'-only.

-- =20
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