Re: [gNewSense-users] ATI blobs (was: runlevel 3 don't work)

[Leo]

On Wednesday 06 January 2010 17:35:55 Dmitry Samoyloff wrote:
> Jason Self wrote:
> > On Jan 6, 2010, at 11:59 AM, Dmitry Samoyloff <address@hidden>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > There's still no libre 3D support for ATI (at least for modern chips).
> >
> > The radeonhd driver site says 3D acceleration via Mesa is supported
> > for r5xx/rs690 GPUs (X1xxx) and is in progress for r6xx/r7xx GPUs
> > (HD2xxx-HD4xxx) but I don't need 3D myself, so I've never fully looked
> > into the matter.
>
> Moreover, there's no 2D acceleration also for the newer ATI chips (without
> firmwares), Xorg works slow as hell :-(
>
> I believe it is a community pressure
> (http://www.fsf.org/photos/rms-sign.jpg) which is lead ATI to releasing
> their specs. However that was not enough: required firmwares remains
> non-free.

That might be it, but ATI actually never released any specs until AMD bought 
it.

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