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EXA Acceleration For The Old ATI Rage Driver

phoronix.com: If you happen to be an unfortunate soul still using an old ATI Rage graphics processor, the "R128" driver now has EXA acceleration support after about a decade and a half of the hardware being around...

xf86-video-ati 6.14.4 Has New Features

phoronix.com: AMD has released the xf86-video-ati 6.14.4 X.Org driver, which brings a few new features to their DDX component...

Tizen's Dawati Is Using A Hybrid X-Wayland

phoronix.com: Besides Kristian Høgsberg's keynote at FOSDEM 2012, where he talked of Wayland 1.0, and his more interesting technical discussion, there was also a talk in Brussels about Wayland compositors. Tizen's Dawati was shown on Wayland using a hybrid X-Wayland compositor, talk of the GNOME Shell on Wayland with Mutter, and much more...

ATI X.Org Driver Sees Significant Update

phoronix.com: The last time there was an official release of the xf86-video-ati DDX driver was back in May, but this morning Michel Dänzer has announced a new version...

The Major Open-Source ATI Improvements Over Two Years

phoronix.com: The open-source ATI/AMD Radeon Linux driver stack has made a lot of improvements in recent times with their Gallium3D drivers becoming mature across all generations and support for new features (such as DRI2 page-flipping) landing in the mainline code and beginning to make its way to users.

xf86-video-ati 6.14.1 Open-Source Driver Released

phoronix.com: Alex Deucher has made available the xf86-video-ati 6.14.1 open-source Radeon driver update this afternoon...

The Direction Of ATI Radeon Graphics In Ubuntu 11.04

phoronix.com: With Ubuntu 11.04 arriving in a little more than a month, the key packages to be found in this "Natty Narwhal" release are nearly settled. For those concerned about the open-source ATI graphics stack, the packages to note are the Linux 2.6.38 kernel, Mesa 7.10.1, and xf86-video-ati 6.14.0.

ATI R600 Gallium3D Driver Does Instanced Drawing

phoronix.com: As some non-OpenBenchmarking.org news this weekend, committed to the mainline Mesa Git repository for Mesa 7.11 is support for OpenGL instanced drawing within the ATI R600 Gallium3D driver...

Wayland Is Now Playing Well With NVIDIA, ATI Drivers

phoronix.com: For those of you interested in running the Wayland Display Server on your NVIDIA and ATI graphics cards, without running it nestled inside an X Server, it should work if you use the newest Linux kernel code...

How Old ATI GPUs Can Be Faster On Open Drivers

phoronix.com: A few days ago when publishing the results of benchmarking a lot of graphics cards on their Gallium3D drivers (about a dozen graphics cards) this left a number of people surprised. A number of these results from the open-source Gallium3D drivers illustrated the older graphics processors as being much faster than the newer hardware, even though the newer hardware is far superior to the vintage products.

ATI R300g / R600g Unify Their Vertex Buffer Manager

phoronix.com: Hitting the Mesa tree this weekend were messages of "r600g: use the new vertex buffer manager" and "r300g: use the new vertex buffer manager."..

A Major Open-Source ATI Linux Driver Update

phoronix.com: If you use the open-source ATI Linux graphics driver, there's a major stable update available. At long last, xf86-video-ati 6.14.0 has been released. This open-source X.Org driver brings official support for the Radeon HD 5000 series, Radeon HD 6000 series, and AMD Fusion Ontario hardware.