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.
Run Haiku, Linux or BSD on new intel iMacs?
Seems one hurdle to running any alt-os on the intel iMacs is the intel EFI which replaces the older BIOS. Well there is already a Linux EFI boot loader on Source Forge, so that shouldn’t take long for open-source OS maintainers to create one for their OS. Another hurdle might be the graphics chipset.
The iMac uses the ATI Radeon X1600 using PCIe and the MacBook Pro uses the ATI Mobility Radeon X1600, so it’s just a matter of getting driver support added for those chips, in the meantime VESA mode should work. Haiku would be tripped up by the lack of SATA support, but I’m sure they’ll have SATA support before they finish R1.