ATI graphics support?

Vincent Trouilliez vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr
Sun Jun 22 18:36:55 UTC 2008


> Hi,
> I heard some time ago that ATI would free their drivers.

Forgot: AMD/ATI explictely said they would NOT free their exiting
proprietary driver ("fglrx"), IIRC. What they are freeing is the
technical data about their latest graphics chips, that allows one (in
this case, Novell) to write a driver of their own from (nearly) scratch.

--
Vince




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