Re: [gNewSense-users] ATI blobs (was: runlevel 3 don't work)

[Jason Self]

On Jan 6, 2010, at 6:42 PM, Dmitry Samoyloff <address@hidden>  
wrote:

> Jason Self wrote:
> > > > Moreover, there's no 2D acceleration also for the newer ATI chips
> > > > (without
> > > > firmwares), Xorg works slow as hell :-(
> >
> > In reviewing the radeonhd changelog for version 1.3 they say that 2D
> > acceleration (EXA) is enabled by default now, except on RV740.
>
> I bet they are using non-free firmware for this.

I haven't looked yet, but can check into it when I get home.

> > I think that AMD's level of involvement with the free software
> > community is enough to give them my money when I buy video cards.
>
> I suppose, most of subscribers of this mailing list (including me)  
> would like
> to use their hardware with gNewSense OS. Thus I wouldn't recommend  
> yet ATI
> GPUs for users needing 3D and appreciating a software freedom.

I thought radeonhd was free software. IIRC, it's available in the  
gNewSense repository and my video card works just fine with it &  
gNewSense (I needed to get a newer version though.) So if not AMD,  
then what?