On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 19:31:09 -0400
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> if the driver blows dead goats and the vendor isnt willing to help
> and no Gentoo dev wants to touch it, what other solution is there ?

There's an open-source driver for the r5xx stuff called the avivo
driver [1]. It's still pretty rough, so I haven't packaged it yet. For
anyone interested, it should be pretty easy to make an ebuild for it
based on the xf86-video-ati ebuild and the git eclass.

For the present, je_fro's picked up ati-drivers and anarchy's been
sending changes for some of the newest stuff.

Thanks,
Donnie

1. http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=avivo/xf86-video-avivo.git;a=summary