Posted on Saturday, June 21 2008 @ 6:50 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
In our article this morning entitled AMD Makes An Evolutionary
Leap In Linux Support, we briefly touched on the fact that AMD would be
continuing in their open-source support for the Radeon HD 4000
generation of GPUs. AMD will release register information for the RV770
and the code to TCore and KGrids will help the community developers when
it comes to 2D and 3D acceleration. Though, with not much work at all,
this afternoon we have the ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB running with the
open-source xf86-video-ati driver! The Radeon HD 4850 will not currently
work with the xf86-video-radeonhd driver as it doesn't rely upon the
AtomBIOS in these areas, but in this article we have enclosed our patch
and other information for using this open-source driver on AMD's latest
hardware.
Check it out
at Phoronix.
