Posted on Sunday, August 22 2010 @ 6:20 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
AMD continues to abide by their commitment to provide
open-source support for their graphics cards and as proof of that this
afternoon they have released their initial hardware acceleration code
that supports the ATI Radeon HD 5000 "Evergreen" family of consumer
grade graphics processors. While this Evergreen support isn't yet
finished and for the time being is targeted towards Linux developers and
enthusiasts, you can now play around with your ATI Radeon HD 5000
graphics processor on an open-source driver while having 2D EXA,
X-Video, and OpenGL acceleration.
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