On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 11:10:38AM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote: > On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 10:41:42PM +0200, Joachim Schipper wrote: > | I just got a laptop (Acer Aspire 5100 `series') with a Radeon video card > | (X1300) and a WXGA screen - 1200x800. It was a good deal, but the ATI > | video card had me worried. > > <SNIP> > > | (If someone is aware of work being done on supporting those cards, I'd > | be happy to hear that...) > > People are working on avivo(4), an open source driver for next-gen ATI > cards[0]. Apparantly, they're going the difficult route of reverse > engineering stuff since no docs are available. Last I heard was that > it required changes to X that aren't in OpenBSD yet[1].
> [0]: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=753&num=1 > [1]: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=118461851232744&w=2 Hmm, I had found this driver but didn't expect it to get imported into OpenBSD anytime soon. While I did read the message you linked to originally. Having a good memory would be useful. Anyway, thanks! I might take a look at avivo, or - more likely - wait for Matthieu to do the work for me... Joachim -- PotD: x11/piewm - tvtwm with pie (circular) menus
