PCastro (hook@xxxxxxxxxxxxx): > > Hey all. I was curious as to how support is coming for the ATI AIW > > 8500 Radeon cards...I have done some searching on google but haven't > > found a whole lot, I guess because of how new the card is. > > The correct place to look ATI related stuff is the old GATOS project. > Try: http://linuxvideo.org/ The URL is now: http://gatos.sf.net/ > > For anyone who may be using one, what exactly are the linux > > capabilities of the card thus far? > > Nothing related with "Linux". The problem is (as usual) related with > ATI itself and the chip specs/docs and "proprietary/protected" crap. > And tons of lines of code to put together. ATI has been willing to give Linux developers specs under NDA, and that has resulted in the development drivers that exist for many of their newer products. Development is rather slow, but I don't think that if the specs were public it would speed up all that much. The problem is the lack of money. Ideally, ATI would write their own drivers (and I heard this is what they are going to do, at least for 3D support). -- Billy Biggs vektor@xxxxxxxxxxxx
