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/
mtd80x(ep320xs) Network Driver
Anthony Lee has published a mtd80x compatible adapter driver for BeOS.
This driver covers:-
- Digitalchina EDA-100 Fast Ethernet Card OR
- MYSON Technology Inc’s SURECOM EP-320X-S 100/10M Ethernet PCI Adapter
Intel PRO/Wireless Driver
{mosimage}Michael Lotz has released a driver for Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 devices as found in many first generation Centrino laptops.
New Driver Fund Target
{mosimage}With the news that Haiku now has preliminary support for intel graphics cards comes the need for hardware to test out new code on. To do this, BeDrivers is going to target the Driver Hardware Fund at raising funds to buy hardware and/or to pay for shipping of donated older hardware (no loaned hardware must be no strings attached giving it away) to Axel for further improvements to the driver. So if you have an intel graphics chipset or just want to helpout, just click the paypal link and give what you can. Discuss further in the forum, under video drivers.