ken mays wrote:
> The ATI v8.39.4 release of device drivers for
Solaris
> supporting the ATI X1900 series graphic cards???
As far as I know, ATI has no plans to release Solaris
drivers themselves.
> ATI mentioned they support the open source
developers
> wanting to work on ATI video device drivers for
> "alternate" OS platforms.
Really? Where did you hear that? Their actions
seem
to be consistently the opposite of that.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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Hi,
Hmmm.. thought it was well known. Here is the quote
from ATI's web page on open souricing their driver
code:
"http://ati.amd.com/products/catalyst/linux.html#2
Q4: Is complete driver source code available?
A4: Some of the technologies supported in our driver
are protected by non-disclosure agreements with third
parties, so we cannot legally release the complete
source code to our driver. It is NOT open source. We
do, however, include source code for the control panel
and certain other public segments. We also actively
assist developers in the Open Source community with
their work, so if you absolutely require an open
source driver for your graphics card, we can recommend
using drivers from the DRI project, Utah-GLX project,
or others."
>From there I know that Xi Graphics (i.e. XiG) provide
support ATI device driver development under their own
OpenGL 3D implementation for Sun Solaris.
~ Ken Mays
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