Posted on Tuesday, July 17 2007 @ 3:25 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
It was just a month ago that the open-source Avivo driver for
the ATI Radeon X1000 (R500) series was introduced to the public, but in
this time we've seen some great progress made. This open-source R500
driver now contains RandR 1.2 support, support for a variety of R500
graphics cards, and most recently support for Shadow Framebuffer was
added. The Avivo driver still isn't comparable when it comes to the
features found in the fglrx driver or even the open-source Radeon driver
for the R200/300/400 series, but it's a work in progress. If you are
running into problems with the fglrx driver, stuck using the VESA driver
for one reason or another, or just want to get rid of the binary blob
and experiment with this open-source driver, we have written a guide for
setting up the Avivo driver from source on Ubuntu.
Read on
at Phoronix.