More video cards added to the nVidia driver
As of Haiku build r22497, Rudolf has now added support for 24 more nVidia based cards.He says he’ll also be updating the accelerant soon. Nice to see updates for this one. Nice work Rudolf. If you have one of the newly added cards, as always head on over and grab the latest Haiku build and provide your feedback.
Haiku gets AHCI SATA
Marcus Overhagen has been busy working on SATA support for Haiku. He has now checked in the code and SATA should now be functional. Well that’s the theory. They still need to have it checked out on real hardware, so if you have a computer with SATA give it a try out.
Another new audio driver in the works
Seems our old friend Jerome Leveque has been busy again. This time he’s working on drivers for the ICEnsemble 1712, which powers the M-Audio Audiophile2496, among others. If you have any of the devices on the list, or if your sound card uses the ICEnsemble then be sure to download this driver and give it some testing and provide some feedback on your experiences with the driver.
AMD opens Radeon GPUs to open source development
According to Christopher Blizzard, AMD is making the commitment to do two major things:
* To develop a fully functional 2D and 3D driver that supports all of their newer radeon chipsets for Linux. This will be done in full collaboration with the open source community and will have the direct participation of hackers from companies like Red Hat and Novell.
* To release documentation that anyone can use to build and support drivers for their chips.
Should be more information coming in the next week, hopefully this will lead to Haiku getting 3D support on the ATI driver.
Audio Drivers in the Works
There are a couple of Audio Drivers in the works for Haiku of note, first is one by Ithamar Adema for HDA (High Definition Audio) standard for audio hardware. Read the buzz over on LeBuzz
Another major audio driver is in the works by François Revol is OSS. This is a huge one, in that if/when it’s working it will bring audio support for many sound devices. Read more about it over on LeBuzz.
http://www.xanga.com/lebuzz/601706432/
We’re Back!
It’s been a few months, but BeDrivers.com is now back up and running. We’ll be adding more content to the site in the days and weeks to come. The matrix still needs work, hopefully we’ll get that back up and running as well. Forum seems to be working. Let us know if you have any troubles with it.