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[News] AMD/ATI's Documentation Already Bears Fruit

  • Subject: [News] AMD/ATI's Documentation Already Bears Fruit
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:09:57 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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AMD Specs Already Help Avivo Driver

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| While the days of the Avivo driver are likely limited with the new 
| open-source R500/600 driver, this driver has already improved marginally 
| thanks to the publicly released RV630/M56 specifications.  
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjA1NA

It might not be needed, but at least this project is independent from a
company.


Related:

Open-Source ATI Driver Gets TV-Out Support

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| Thanks to recent commits in the RandR 1.2 branch for the open-source X.Org 
| Radeon driver, it's now possible to use S-Video and composite TV output on 
| your ATI graphics card without any patches.   
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=806&num=1


Avivo R500 Linux Driver Status

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| A month ago we told you that Avivo v0.1.0 (the open-source ATI R500 X1000 
| Linux driver) was coming soon, but still we have not seen this release. 
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http://phoronix.com/?page=news_item&px=NTk2NQ


Avivo vs. Fglrx Driver In GtkPerf

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| As you can see from the timed results, the GTK+ performance when using
| the Avivo driver with ShadowFB enabled had sharply outperformed the 
| 8.39 fglrx driver (partly due to the CPU operations).
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=779&num=1


ATI R200 TV-Out In Open-Source Driver

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| The GATOS project has long been known as the path to take for enabling TV 
| output support with the open-source X.Org driver on the Radeon 8500 to 9250 
| (R200) series, but soon you may no longer need to worry about the GATOS 
| patch.    
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http://www.phoronix.com/?page=news_item&px=NTkzNg

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