[Pkg-fglrx-devel] AMD Dropping R300-R500 Support In Catalyst Driver

[Patrick Matthäi]

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Patrick Matthäi schrieb:
> Bertrand Marc schrieb:
>> Patrick Matthäi a écrit :
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I just saw this today:
>>>
>>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_r500_legacy&num=1
>>>
>>> Fact:
>>> AMD will drop the support with 9.4 for all cards which are older than
>>> the HD 2000 series to focus on newer card. 9.3 will be the last
>>> release which supports 300-500 cards.
>>>
>>> How annoying..
>>>
>>> Also we are not able to support the legacy driver until Squeeze, due
>>> of Xorg ABI bumps (incompatible with Xorg 1.5.99) and the kernel
>>> module is also not every time in a good way patchable..
>>>
>>> Comments?
>>>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I would have plenty of comments about AMD, but let's stick with fglrx...
> 
> Yeah and this does not help anyone :)
> 
>> On our end I think we just need to make it clear to users still using
>> R300-500.
> 
> This would be one solution.
> 
>> As you said 9.3 will probably not work with squeeze, so it has no
>> sense to upload a legacy driver, hasn't it ?
> 
> Depends on how fast Squeeze releases and with which kernel and if we are
> able to patch it.
> But the biggest problem is the Xorg incompatibility. 9-2 does not fit
> with xserver 1.5 yet. We could just still hope that 9-3 will do so, then
> we had a chance..
> 
>>
>> I am curious to see what commercial distribution (as Ubuntu) will do
>> about it. Maybe they'll patch 9.3 as long as possible and we will be
>> able to use their work ?
> 
> Kanotix is the commercial one, not Ubuntu.
> 
> Anyway I CCed the maintainer list of the Ubuntu fglrx maintainers.
> What are your plans?
> 
> Cheers.
> 

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzExOQ

"AMD's Legacy Driver Will Not Support X Server 1.6" - okay no chance.


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