Your First Date With Vbespy
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| Now if you are an ATI R500 owner and have been wondering how you can help
| with the advancement of this open-source driver, there is a way even without
| prior development experience and that is by providing VBE mode-setting BIOS
| dumps. As you have probably never created such dumps before, we have written
| a brief tutorial on using vbespy/vbetest for the first time.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=803&num=1
Related:
Avivo R500 Linux Driver Status
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| A month ago we told you that Avivo v0.1.0 (the open-source ATI R500 X1000
| Linux driver) was coming soon, but still we have not seen this release.
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http://phoronix.com/?page=news_item&px=NTk2NQ
Avivo vs. Fglrx Driver In GtkPerf
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| As you can see from the timed results, the GTK+ performance when using
| the Avivo driver with ShadowFB enabled had sharply outperformed the
| 8.39 fglrx driver (partly due to the CPU operations).
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=779&num=1
ATI R200 TV-Out In Open-Source Driver
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| The GATOS project has long been known as the path to take for enabling TV
| output support with the open-source X.Org driver on the Radeon 8500 to 9250
| (R200) series, but soon you may no longer need to worry about the GATOS
| patch.
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http://www.phoronix.com/?page=news_item&px=NTkzNg
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