Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 20:37:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 20:37:27 -0400 Received: from enterprise.bidmc.harvard.edu ([134.174.118.50]:24328 "EHLO enterprise.bidmc.harvard.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 20:37:26 -0400 Subject: Re: System very unstable From: "Kristofer T. Karas" To: Linux Kernel In-Reply-To: <20020928.043427.74820153.davem@redhat.com> References: <20020928.033510.40857147.davem@redhat.com> <20020928.043427.74820153.davem@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.7 Date: 28 Sep 2002 20:42:47 -0400 Message-Id: <1033260168.742.8.camel@madmax> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1066 Lines: 25 On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 07:34, David S. Miller wrote: > This is old news, they opensource the drivers at a later date, > this is how it's always worked with ATI. Note that ATI now has a binary driver available that supports the 8500, written by their German development group. Available via their standard "find a driver" page, using Linux as OS. See, for example, http://mirror.ati.com/support/products/pc/radeon8500/linux/radeon8500linuxdrivers.html?cboOS=LinuxXFree86&cboProducts=RADEON+8500LE&cmdNext=GO%21 The scripts that build a kernel module and link it against their library work pretty well and are, to their credit, not impossibly tied to one distro over another. :-) I run Slackware. ktk@madmax:~$ glxgears 10474 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2094.800 FPS 10797 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2159.400 FPS Kris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/