On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 15:05, Charl P. Botha wrote: 
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 01:53:35PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > > I've gotten 2d to work quite acceptably on my 7500, but no 3d support at
> > > all.
> > 
> > 3D is supported on the 7500.
> 
> So there is full 3D acceleration for the 7500, at least as complete as the
> windows drivers + opengl offer?

Not quite, in particular hardware T&L isn't supported yet. But basically,
the driver is working well from what I gather.

> Do you know if ATI will assist to such an extent that future OpenGL
> offerings by them will be supported w.r.t. 3d acceleration?

That seems to be their intention. They provide docs to interested
developers and they even contribute code to XFree86 themselves.

And with http://tungstengraphics.com/, things are looking even better.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast


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