On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 04:24:07PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:51:40PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > I have many times lobbyed ATI and others to get access to the specs > > which would allow to write free drivers for those, but without > > success, and i have come to the conclusion that nothing short of the > > full foss community moving together, or at least a large part thereof, > > there will be nothing changing. > > Note that Keith Packard seemed to be quite optimistic about better ATI > support for X during his talk at FOSDEM. He did not give any details, > though, IIRC.
Yeah, but was it with free drivers ? I somehow doubt this very much, since ATI is unwilling to give out specs, even to proprietary companies like Genesi or Xig, to cite only a few, so i seriously doubt that they would take it kindly if their IP is dissiminated everywhere in the form of XFree86/DRI source code. But let's hope for a better future. Friendly, Sven Luther
