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Weather Channel Sponsors OSS ATI Radeon Drivers

Posted by michael on from the cold-front-coming-in-from-the-west dept.

jvmatthe writes "Jens Owen of Tungsten Graphics (mostly former VA Linux/Precision Insight employees) posted to the DRI developer's mailing list with some excellent news about the future of DRI drivers for the ATi Radeon 8500 video card: "The Weather Channel is funding TG to develop an open source 3D DRI driver for the ATI Radeon 8500 graphics card. The driver will be released to the XFree86 Project around Q4 of 2002, to be distributed to the public in future versions of the XFree86 X Server." Presumably this means that this Weather Channel is the one footing the bill for the development. Given that the current Linux support for the 8500 is limited to a binary-only driver that is intended for a related professional-level card, the delivery of an open driver is excellent news. This is also listed at the bottom of the TG project page."

2 of 193 comments (clear)

  1. NVIDIA no longer has CRAP 2D output by tandoor · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You are looking at old Nvidia cards.

    Look at a GeForce4 MX, the matrox having better 2D quality is now a myth.

  2. Re:I just don't get it. by drDugan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    just wait until people wake up to the fact their lives suck and could be so much better.

    that's when the shit'll really hit it.