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Eight Monitors With ATI Linux Graphics
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| With the most recent Catalyst 8.9 Linux driver release there is support for
| MultiView on FireGL and FirePRO graphics cards. This allows the user to use
| multiple graphics cards together in order to build a single X server that
| spans all of these displays. With some motherboards such as the ASUS P5E64 WS
| Professional having four PCI Express x16 slots, you can have four graphics
| cards and if each one provides two DVI ports you then can have yourself an
| eight-monitor setup. Each monitor can be configured through the AMD Catalyst
| Control Center Linux Edition.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjczNQ
Mesa 7.2 Has Been Released
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| Following last month's release of Mesa 7.1, Tungsten Graphics began working
| on Mesa 7.2, which is a stabilized version of this OpenGL implementation that
| had picked up 3D support for the ATI Radeon R500 and Intel GMA 4-Series. Mesa
| 7.1 also marked the switch to an autoconf build system,
| GL_EXT_texture_from_pixmap extension for Xlib driver, GLSL support for the
| Intel 965, and various other improvements.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjczNg
Recent:
Mesa 7.2 Release Candidate 1
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| Released in late August was Mesa 7.1, which was the first release of this
| open-source OpenGL library with an autoconf-based configuration system,
| various DRI driver enhancements, GL_EXT_texture_from_pixmap extension for the
| Xlib driver, GLSL for Intel's 965 Chipset, and ATI R500 series support. This
| release was also important since it was a prerequisite for the X.Org 7.4 / X
| Server 1.5.0 release. Out this weekend though is Mesa 7.2 Release Candidate
| 1.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjcyMQ
Thank you SGI, for freeing the GNU/Linux 3D desktop!
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| In January of 2008, software code at the heart of GNU/Linux 3D applications
| was discovered to be non-free—a potential disaster for free software
| advocates hoping to see advanced graphical acceleration now common on modern
| operating systems.
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http://www.fsf.org/news/thank-you-sgi
SGI relicenses OpenGL: "A huge gift to the free software community"
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| After nine months, an open secret can finally be acknowledged: The OpenGL
| code that is responsible for 3-D acceleration on GNU/Linux, which was
| released by SGI in 1999, has been running on licenses that were accepted by
| neither the Free Software Foundation (FSF) nor the Open Source Initiative.
| Today, however, the FSF has announced that the licenses in question, the SGI
| Free License B and the GLX Public License, have been rewritten after months
| of negotiation between the FSF and SGI. The problem is now resolved, and the
| result is a code contribution that the FSF ranks as one of the greatest given
| to the community by a proprietary company.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/148339
Mesa 7.1 Released, X.Org 7.4 Coming!
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| Tungsten's Brian Paul has today announced the release of Mesa 7.1. New in
| this open-source library used by Linux graphics drivers for providing OpenGL
| support is autoconf-based configuration, assorted DRI driver enhancements,
| reduced dependencies between the X server and Mesa,
| GL_EXT_texture_from_pixmap extension for Xlib driver, GLSL (GL Shading
| Language) support for the Intel 965, and ATI Radeon R500 (X1000) series
| support. Sorry folks, no OpenGL 3.0 support.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjY3Nw
Related:
Mesa 7.0 released
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| This release is quite important for me since I really would like to play
| Secret Mayro, but that requires OpenGL 1.4 at least to work properly.
| Also, the free drivers now finally reach the proprietary drivers in
| terms of OpenGL support since the proprietary Linux drivers from AMD
| and Nvidia feature OpenGL 2.0 support for quite some time.
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http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/mesa-70-released/
Short Overview: Current State of Mesa and OpenGL on Linux
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| In any case, the new Mesa will be released soon. And since it will be
| the first main release after 3 years we can expect a lot of news
| coverage, maybe even an interview or two and quite some information
| about the road map of Mesa and even OpenGL.
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http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/05/29/short-overview-current-state-of-mesa-and-opengl-on-linux/
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