current state of ati graphics

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Ian Malone wrote:
>> Since AMD have apparently released the specs needed to write an open
>> driver for them I thought it might be worth supporting them this time
>> around, but I'm not sure what the current state of ATI support looks like.
> 
> For the Free Software drivers (i.e. NOT the proprietary fglrx):
> http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon
> 
> In short, r1xx up to r5xx series are now supported with 2D (XRender) and 3D
> (OpenGL) acceleration. In marketing names, that's up to X1950 (rule of
> thumb: if it doesn't have "HD" in it, it should be supported - the HD*
> models (r6xx/r7xx) and the X2300 HD which appears to be some sort of hybrid
> between the r5xx architecture and some r6xx or r7xx one are not supported).

Where do the Mobility Radeon's (like my M56P [X1600]) fall in this 
description?

>         Kevin Kofler

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