Radeon HD 4850 Works With Open-Source Driver Already

news · June 19, 2008

At Phoronix we have posted a new article. A link to this from your

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Title: Radeon HD 4850 Works With Open-Source Driver Already ( -at -) Phoronix

Summary: "In our article this morning entitled AMD Makes An Evolutionary

Leap In Linux Support, we briefly touched on the fact that AMD would be

continuing in their open-source support for the Radeon HD 4000

generation of GPUs. AMD will release register information for the RV770

and the code to TCore and KGrids will help the community developers when

it comes to 2D and 3D acceleration. Though, with not much work at all,

this afternoon we have the ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB running with the

open-source xf86-video-ati driver! The Radeon HD 4850 will not currently

work with the xf86-video-radeonhd driver as it doesn't rely upon the

AtomBIOS in these areas, but in this article we have enclosed our patch

and other information for using this open-source driver on AMD's latest

hardware."

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