Jerome Glisse and his posse of open-source developers have
been making good progress with an open-source "Avivo" graphics driver
for the ATI Radeon X1000 (R500) series hardware. However, one roadblock
they have hit along the way is with TMDS setting issues on the Radeon
X1200, X1300, X1400, and X1900 series. This roadblock had also led to
postponing the Avivo 0.1.0 release. Now if you are an ATI R500 owner and
have been wondering how you can help with the advancement of this
open-source driver, there is a way even without prior development
experience and that is by providing VBE mode-setting BIOS dumps. As you
have probably never created such dumps before, we have written a brief
tutorial on using vbespy/vbetest for the first time.
Check it out at Phoronix.
Your First Date With Vbespy
Posted on Thursday, August 16 2007 @ 22:30 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck