Open-Source R500 Driver Released

from Phoronix
Posted by Michael Larabel on June 12, 2007
The very first (and very rudimentary) open-source Xorg driver for the ATI Radeon X1000 “R500″ series has been released! However, before downloading it, this driver only contains code to initialize and set video modes on the Radeon X1300 to X1600 graphics cards. RandR 1.2 support for the [...]

GPUs & Beryl: What is Needed?

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We thought it was already clear what graphics processors and drivers work and don’t work with Linux desktop eye candy such as Beryl and Compiz, but it seems based upon the number of e-mails we have been receiving along with messages in community bulletin boards that the line isn’t so clear after all. For [...]