Re: [Cooker] avivo open source driver for ATI X1xxx series cards added to Cooker - please test

[Fabrice FACORAT]

Le samedi 4 août 2007, Adam Williamson a écrit :
> I've just packaged and uploaded the new 'avivo' X.org driver into
> Cooker. This is an open source driver for ATI r500 series chips - that's
> the Radeon X1xxx series of cards (also a few FireGL and Mobility X2300
> chips). It's currently under heavy development, but reviews indicate
> that it's at least better than the 'vesa' driver we're currently using
> as fallback for these cards when fglrx isn't available. The 'radeon'
> driver does not support these cards and will not, avivo is The One True
> Driver for the future for these cards.
>
> I'm packaging blind here because I don't have one of these cards. I'd
> like to move the driver to main and set ldetect-lst to use it as the
> open source driver for these cards, but first I want to check if it
> actually works =) So can anyone who has one of these cards please try it
> out? All you should need to do is install the x11-driver-video-avivo
> package from contrib and switch your driver in xorg.conf from 'fglrx' or
> 'vesa' or 'fbdev' or whatever to 'avivo'. Thanks!
>
> Expected result would be decent 2D functionality - better than the vesa
> or fbdev drivers. I don't expect anything much from 3D yet. fglrx is
> still the *best* driver for these cards, but I want to have avivo
> available as the free alternative.

great. With this drivern the laptop with the ATI chipset is finally working 
correctly. No obvious issues as of today :)

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