Looking for ATI src code.... for Linux OS.

[Vénus]

Hello there,

I am a kernel developer for Windows for 9-years, I worked with Linux also
but not extensively. I am trying to see if I can preview its drivers source
code. Can you kindly provide me with the link to where I can download it?
I heard a portion of the driver code is not published (I thought that
open-source is supposed to be opened completely)


Thanks,

Cam

[Joe Feise]

Post by Vénus
Hello there,
I am a kernel developer for Windows for 9-years, I worked with Linux also
but not extensively. I am trying to see if I can preview its drivers source
code. Can you kindly provide me with the link to where I can download it?
I heard a portion of the driver code is not published (I thought that
open-source is supposed to be opened completely)

The ATI driver is not open source...

[Vénus]

Post by Joe Feise

Post by Vénus
Hello there,
I am a kernel developer for Windows for 9-years, I worked with Linux also
but not extensively. I am trying to see if I can preview its drivers source
code. Can you kindly provide me with the link to where I can download it?
I heard a portion of the driver code is not published (I thought that
open-source is supposed to be opened completely)

The ATI driver is not open source...

I thought so too but I just want to make sure. Thanks.

[Mark Hobley]

Post by Joe Feise
The ATI driver is not open source...

On Debian, the Open Source ATI drivers are part of the kernel source:

dpkg -S radeonfb.ko

This reveals:

kernel-image-2.6.8-3-386:
/lib/modules/2.6.8-3-386/kernel/drivers/video/aty/radeonfb.ko

To obtain the source:

apt-get source kernel-image-2.6.8-3-386

Regards,

Mark.
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[Joe Feise]

Post by Joe Feise
The ATI driver is not open source...

That is *not* the driver from ATI. ATI's driver is not Open Source.

-Joe

[Mark Hobley]

Post by Joe Feise
That is *not* the driver from ATI. ATI's driver is not Open Source.

I know it was not developed by ATI, but it is an open source driver for ATI
cards. There is no need to use a proprietary driver. The open source drivers
work fine.

Regards,

Mark.
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[J.O. Aho]

Post by Vénus
Hello there,
I am a kernel developer for Windows for 9-years, I worked with Linux
also but not extensively. I am trying to see if I can preview its
drivers source code. Can you kindly provide me with the link to where I
can download it? I heard a portion of the driver code is not published
(I thought that open-source is supposed to be opened completely)

The open sourcde code for the ATi graphics chips can be found at www.x.org,
but thats not the same driver/source as for the closed source driver provided
by ATi itself.


//Aho

[Vénus]

Post by J.O. Aho

Post by Vénus
Hello there,
I am a kernel developer for Windows for 9-years, I worked with Linux also
but not extensively. I am trying to see if I can preview its drivers
source code. Can you kindly provide me with the link to where I can
download it? I heard a portion of the driver code is not published (I
thought that open-source is supposed to be opened completely)

The open sourcde code for the ATi graphics chips can be found at
www.x.org, but thats not the same driver/source as for the closed source
driver provided by ATi itself.
//Aho

I didn't see anything there, searching results = 0 for "Display" "Video" and
"ATI"

Sorry, no results. It said.

[J.O. Aho]

Post by Vénus

Post by J.O. Aho

Post by Vénus
Hello there,
I am a kernel developer for Windows for 9-years, I worked with Linux
also but not extensively. I am trying to see if I can preview its
drivers source code. Can you kindly provide me with the link to
where I can download it? I heard a portion of the driver code is not
published (I thought that open-source is supposed to be opened
completely)

The open sourcde code for the ATi graphics chips can be found at
www.x.org, but thats not the same driver/source as for the closed
source driver provided by ATi itself.

I didn't see anything there, searching results = 0 for "Display" "Video"
and "ATI"
Sorry, no results. It said.

Go to the download section.

xf86-video-ati-X11R7.1-6.6.0.tar.bz2


//Aho

[Vénus]

Post by J.O. Aho

Post by Vénus

Post by J.O. Aho

Post by Vénus
Hello there,
I am a kernel developer for Windows for 9-years, I worked with Linux
also but not extensively. I am trying to see if I can preview its
drivers source code. Can you kindly provide me with the link to where
I can download it? I heard a portion of the driver code is not
published (I thought that open-source is supposed to be opened
completely)

The open sourcde code for the ATi graphics chips can be found at
www.x.org, but thats not the same driver/source as for the closed source
driver provided by ATi itself.

I didn't see anything there, searching results = 0 for "Display" "Video"
and "ATI"
Sorry, no results. It said.

Go to the download section.
xf86-video-ati-X11R7.1-6.6.0.tar.bz2

Thank you very much.

Have a good day.

[Vénus]

Post by J.O. Aho

Post by Vénus

Post by J.O. Aho

Post by Vénus
Hello there,
I am a kernel developer for Windows for 9-years, I worked with Linux
also but not extensively. I am trying to see if I can preview its
drivers source code. Can you kindly provide me with the link to where
I can download it? I heard a portion of the driver code is not
published (I thought that open-source is supposed to be opened
completely)

The open sourcde code for the ATi graphics chips can be found at
www.x.org, but thats not the same driver/source as for the closed source
driver provided by ATi itself.

I didn't see anything there, searching results = 0 for "Display" "Video"
and "ATI"
Sorry, no results. It said.

Go to the download section.
xf86-video-ati-X11R7.1-6.6.0.tar.bz2
//Aho

ATI must have linked their code with external header files, I suspect they
must be in the OS somewhere but I failed to find them in the same dnload
area:
these files didn't come with the package of ATI driver source:

xf86str.h
xf86fbman.h
xaa.h
mibank.h
xf86cursor.h
xf86Pci.h
xf86resources.h
xf86.h
xf86_OSproc.h
X11/Xmdh
...
...
...

Do you happen to know where are they located?

Thank you much,

[J.O. Aho]

Post by Vénus
ATI must have linked their code with external header files, I suspect
they must be in the OS somewhere but I failed to find them in the same
xf86str.h
xf86fbman.h
xaa.h
mibank.h
xf86cursor.h
xf86Pci.h
xf86resources.h
xf86.h
xf86_OSproc.h
X11/Xmdh
...
...
...
Do you happen to know where are they located?

Those are located in other xorg packages, you could also download the whole
monolithic xorg, the latest is 6.9, that way you get all the headers at once.


//Aho

[Vénus]

Post by J.O. Aho

Post by Vénus
ATI must have linked their code with external header files, I suspect
they must be in the OS somewhere but I failed to find them in the same
xf86str.h
xf86fbman.h
xaa.h
mibank.h
xf86cursor.h
xf86Pci.h
xf86resources.h
xf86.h
xf86_OSproc.h
X11/Xmdh
...
...
...
Do you happen to know where are they located?

Those are located in other xorg packages, you could also download the
whole monolithic xorg, the latest is 6.9, that way you get all the headers
at once.
//Aho

http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/xorg/proto/
Why these files are listed one by one? This is difficult for me to crab
because I have a big list of missing header files.

[Unruh]

Post by Vénus

Post by J.O. Aho

Post by Vénus
ATI must have linked their code with external header files, I suspect
they must be in the OS somewhere but I failed to find them in the same
xf86str.h
xf86fbman.h
xaa.h
mibank.h
xf86cursor.h
xf86Pci.h
xf86resources.h
xf86.h
xf86_OSproc.h
X11/Xmdh
...
...
...
Do you happen to know where are they located?

Those are located in other xorg packages, you could also download the
whole monolithic xorg, the latest is 6.9, that way you get all the headers
at once.
//Aho

http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/xorg/proto/
Why these files are listed one by one? This is difficult for me to crab
because I have a big list of missing header files.

Why not? It is those header files that are missing, not others.

Anywya you need to install some of the xorg development packages for your
distro.
Under mandrake for example
x11-server-devel
will include a number of those header files.

urpmf filename
will tell you which package that filename is part of. Other distros will
have something similar