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Sean Cavanaugh writes:

>  AMD is actively working to opensource the *nic drivers for the
>  ATI cards starting with the most recent. From a news article iI
>  came across they were actually hiring a whole new department
>  whose sole purpose was to add more of the older cards to the open
>  sorce drivers as well as eventually having 3d acceleration. As
>  for the NEW 4000 series, the card will come with full drivers for
>  windows and Linux on the install CD. granted there is still some
>  coding to get BSD drivers, but AMD is making life better for *nix
>  user with ATI cards.

	Is there any place (web site, wiki, blog) where the public can
track this effort?


				Robert Huff