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+ - Novell releases OpenSource ATI Driver-> 0

Submitted by metalzelot on Saturday September 22, 2007 @07:16AM

metalzelot writes "Last week AMD released the specifications for ATI Radeon R5xx and R6xx graphic devices. Now Novell follows up with an alpha Open Source driver.

Drivers for different distributions can be downloaded here.

Next steps are adding support for more hardware, RandR 1.2 support, video overlay support and 2D acceleration."
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Comment: Re:Sweet! (Score 1) 325

by metalzelot on Thursday September 13, 2007 @02:47PM (#20592351) Attached to: AMD Releases 900+ Pages Of GPU Specs

I also have an Geforce 4. Its a Geforce 4 MX 420, a very old model. But its still working and I'm happy with it. There's only one bug working with Beryl. Nvidia told me that they are on the way for a solution. Why I'm responsing is to inform you that it is possible, even with an old Geforce 4 to get the new kernel. All you have to do is to install the Nvidia Legacy Driver. They are still supported and updated, just not as frequently as the normal driver. You can get the legacy driver here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-9639.html Good luck with them!