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Microsoft's DRM vision

Posted Aug 1, 2005 20:21 UTC (Mon) by gurulabs (subscriber, #10753)
In reply to: Microsoft's DRM vision by rknop
Parent article: Microsoft's DRM vision

There is now open source support for R3xx based cards such as the Radeon 9600/9800. My laptop has a FireGL Mobility T2 (aka Radeon 9600) and I have been using the r300 DRI driver for a couple weeks now with heavy 8+ hours a day use. Not one lockup or issue at all.

The 3D performance is very very good as well.

Supposedly on the 9800 cards there is one or more hang bugs that are being tracked down.

The driver lived out-of-tree for awhile at http://r300.sourceforge.net/. However, last week or so it was accepted into the official X.org/Mesa trees.

You can get it here now: http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/

Dax Kelson
Guru Labs

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Microsoft's DRM vision

Posted Aug 2, 2005 0:01 UTC (Tue) by rknop (guest, #66) [Link]

Excellent. Good news, thanks. (Especially now that X.org is in Debian, and presumably will get over to testing at some point in the next few months.)

It seems to be following the late-90's trend of "you get support, just later." I remember a period when a whole bunch of laptops got NeoMagic chips, and it became near-impossible to run Linux on a recent laptop without using one of the commercial X servers. Fortunately, that day is past....

I do miss the days when ATI was sending programming information to people writing free drivers.

-Rob