New open source radeon driver

[leigh123linux]

There is a new open source radeon driver for newer ati cards ( x1300 an up )

[root@localhost leigh]# yum info  xorg-x11-drv-radeonhd
Installed Packages
Name   : xorg-x11-drv-radeonhd
Arch   : x86_64
Version: 0.0.2
Release: 0.7.20071017git.fc8
Size   : 165 k
Repo   : installed
Summary: Xorg X11 radeonhd driver for AMD GPG r5xx/r6xx Chipsets

Description:
X.org X11 radeonhd driver for AMD GPG r5xx/r6xx Chipsets.

This package is a snapshot of a work in progress. You may experience
regressions, bugs, errors, broken displays, and other undesirable phenomena.

radeonhd mailing list: http://lists.opensuse.org/radeonhd/


[root@localhost leigh]#

Hopefully this will make it into F8

[Deore]

Hi,

is this the new ATI open source driver? I mean, I have been reading about ATI trying to release an all-new open source driver to support the newer models with AIGLX and so on. They wanted to reveal the GPU specs and help open-sorce devs on this driver. However they were having problems with licensing as their driver contains some third-party code. So I was wondering if this is it or is this another reverse-engineered driver.

[Janl]

That is THE new open source driver. It's being worked on by SUSE, but at this time it's not very stable or feature complete. It's kinda like the Nouvou (spelling) driver for Nvidia at this point. I do think it's progressing somewhat quickly from what I've heard.

[Deore]

Oh great, I will give it a try, see how's the chemistry with my mobility HD 2400
Hope they'll make good progress!

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by Deore

Oh great, I will give it a try, see how's the chemistry with my mobility HD 2400
Hope they'll make good progress!

They have packages for F7 - F9 ( they are still at the testing/experimental stage )

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/p...packageID=5156