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Default [phoronix] Revenge 1.0 For Reverse Engineering ATI drivers
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Previously we reported on the Revenge utility being developed by Oliver McFadden for reverse-engineering the ATI fglrx binary display driver. Today marks the first release of the Revenge utility as it has reached version 1.0. This isn't a bug free release but Oliver hopes it will ship with some distributions to help in the reverse-engineering process and turn more Linux users to free software drivers.
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sounds cool. i hope this works to make ati drivers better.

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Didn't ATI release their driver source code?
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Didn't ATI release their driver source code?
your rite. hmm now i wonder what this is for. sounds strange.

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your rite. hmm now i wonder what this is for. sounds strange.
The open source driver doesn't support AIGLX, I thought?
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The open source driver doesn't support AIGLX, I thought?
ok i have forgot. i will see what i can find out on this. i got rid of my ati card so i haven't kept up on this like i should.

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If I remember correctly, ATI only released all the info necessary to make a driver for their cards, with the vague promise that some time in the future they will release their actual source code. I could be wrong though.
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The open source driver doesn't support AIGLX, I thought?

Actually it does. Fglrx was the one that didn't support AIGLX for a long time. Their drivers are already open and people are hard at work updating radeon (the open source driver) with all the new stuff. Novell is one of the major sponsors.
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Didn't ATI release their driver source code?
Actually, no. To quote someone else from a thread in the ubuntu forums:
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And they are NOT open sourced.
maybe some parts of them yes, but in a whole no.
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Actually, no. To quote someone else from a thread in the ubuntu forums:

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