[Wine] ATI (rv350) + open-source driver + wine gaming issues

[Gert van den Berg]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 1:52 AM, Wintershade <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> Oh. I see.
>
> Any chance that the ATI/AMD driver will become completely open-source, as it was announced some time ago? (not sure whether it was officially, though)
>
AMD released the specs needed to develop an open source driver. It is
being used for the radeonhd driver.

The man page: (for an unknown version) http://linux.die.net/man/4/radeonhd

Official page: http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonhd

The gentoo wiki has some potentially useful info: (even for other distros)
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_DRI_with_ATi_Open-Source_Drivers (this is
probably more relevant for the RV350... Although it seem that your
distro has the r300 driver compiled in if direct rendering seem ok...)
http://gentoo-wiki.com/RadeonHD

> ...hence the sudden increase in performance in the last month :D

I think that AMD/ATI is mostly supporting (at least providing
documentation for) the radeonhd driver...

The documentation for the R3xx series is relatively limited:
http://developer.amd.com/documentation/guides/Pages/default.aspx#open_gpu

(I see anyone it up in the time between me writing the reply and
actually sending it...)

Gert