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A month ago, I was in Chicago, attending the X.org Developer Conference (XDC2011) as a Nouveau developer.

The following is a summary of my story.

I know only a few days have passed since my previous update but today, I'm gonna talk about this week mesa's improvement and the Kernel Mode Setting with the r7xx radeon family.

Roughly one month have passed since I first tried the 3D support on my radeon HD4770 (R740), it is time for a little update :)

Ten days after my article r6xx/r7xx open source driver evolves fast !, there have been quite a lot of work and commits on mesa but it seems like my corruption problems are not going away.

It is time for another video !

Back in the January 2009, AMD started releasing code and documentation for r6xx/r7xx ATI Radeon series. This has been made to allow further development on the open source drivers xf86-video-ati and xf86-video-radeonhd.

The first release was only able to draw opengl triangles. One month ago, AMD's Alex Deucher announced on new milestone had been completed, glxgears on r6xx/r7xx, and, finally, fifteen days later, he also announced compiz started working with xf86-video-ati.

Since I bought a new computer last month, I decided it was time to test this new driver !