Open Source “Linux Drivers” for ATI Graphics


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While the the term “Linux Driver” is actually a misnomer, it is widely used in our field. Linux is an OS kernel (and associated kernel utilities) produced by the “Linux Group” headed by Linus Torvalds. Linux does not encompass the X Window System, or “X” in shorthand. X is the graphics sub-system used by most UNIX systems, including Linux, for handling graphics. X is a specification created twenty-some years ago that has evolved as an industry standard under the auspices of (mostly) the X Consortium through the last formal release known as X11R6.4. Since then, new releases of X seem to be more version changes to cover code updates of the XFree86 or X.org X servers, rather than X specification changes. Originally, Linux gained its reputation for stability in applications that did not need graphics, hence did not run X. A typical “headless” application was Apache, the Web server. Reports of two or three years continuous up time running Apache was common. Linux with graphics was (is) another story. Reports of instability, poor performance, and lack of support are now quite common if serious graphics operations are involved. Two major pieces of the X graphics sub-system (technically a UNIX application) are the X server and the “graphics driver code” that is tied directly to the use of graphics chip hardware.

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