[ltp] T42p / FireGL T2 / Render Acceleration

[Carlos Moffat]

Hey,

On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 16:41 +0200, Laurent Gilson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> > What? They've dropped support for the Mobility FireGL T2? that's a M10,
> > which is pretty new, I think (this computer is only 1 year old). You
> > sure?
> 
> http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=15918
> 
> Most M-somethings got dropped. IMHO that includes the M10. The good news  
> is that the R300 (aka M10) will get basic 3D-support in Xorg 7.1.
> 
> Hint: the support on the windows side is not much better:
> https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&questionID=737-1176
> 
> In my book ATI and Sony do everything possible to stop people from buying.  
> Dropping driver support for a card that is still sold is ... not OK.
> 

I agree. The message from ATI seems to be upgrade or die. Not cool.

As for the Mobility FireGL T2 (In several of the T4* series), is still
supported:

https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.29.6.html#172394

Cheers,
Carlos

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