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Xi Graphics supported the ATI graphics card and Laptop chip products until about the time of the introduction of the R300 chip, at which time ATI declined to continue to provide us with the documentation necessary to write hardware accelerated graphics drivers for the cards and for laptops that employed the ATI mobility devices. NDAs were signed by both parties, but a change in the management at ATI (prior to its acquisition by AMD) seems to have been the reason for the rupture in the relationship. Since then, Xi Graphics has been unable to support ATI products, despite pleadings from our customers to do so.
Actually, some of our customers have moved to Matrox graphics cards and/or Intel mobile graphics in order to get the high performance and stable operation of Summit Series in their platforms. Perhaps one day, ATI (AMD) will reconsider, since the cost to them is basically nil - Xi Graphics develops the drivers on our own nickel.
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ATI Cards/Chips Supported in Series |
| Traffic Control (TX) Series |
TX link |
Requested chip documentation from ATI. |
| HX (WallDisplay) Series |
HX link |
FireMV2400, FireMV2200, RADEON 9000, RADEON R200 (chip) |
| Portable (PX) Series |
PX link |
No laptop chip docs from ATI so far. |
| Value Desktop (VX) Series |
VX link |
Requested chip documentation from ATI. |
| DX (Desktop) Series |
DX link |
FireGL8800, FiewGL 5566, FiewGL 5400, RADEON 9250, 9200, 9100, 9000, 8500AW, 8500Le, 8500, 7500. 7200, 7000, VE, ALL-IN_WONDER RADEON 7500, ALL-IN_WONDER RADEON, ALL-IN_WONDER RADEON 128 Pro, ALL-IN_WONDER RADEON 128, RAGE ULTRA, RAGE FURY MAXX. RAGE FURY Pro, RAGE FURY, RAGE MAGNUM, R500, R300, R299, R100 |
| LX Laptop Series |
LX link |
RADEON IGP, MOBILITY FIRE GL 9000, MOBILITY RADEON 9000, MOBILITY RADEON 7500, MOBILITY RADEON M4, MOBILITY RADEON, MOBILITY R128, MOBILITY, RAGE LT, M9, M7, etc. |
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Comments: Most of the ATI Summit support is contained in the older products - the v2.2 demos. The FireMV products are in the HX v2.4 demos. The v2.2 based products are considered legacy, and are no longer supported with updates. ATI has been mostly non responsive to Xi Graphics' request for chip/cared documentation for past few years.
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