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Old 15th June 2009
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AMD/ATI isn't an opposed to open source, quite the contrary.. they've been releasing technical documentation and datasheets for some time now.

nVidia is the only major GPU manufacture that's uncooperative with open source projects.

Documentation & Resources:
http://developer.amd.com/documentati....aspx#open_gpu
http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/
http://www.radeonhd.org/
http://wiki.x.org/wiki/radeonhd

Relevant articles:
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=10979
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...item&px=NjA0Ng
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=11880
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=12022
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=13322
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=13802

Many many more articles detailing the whole event as well.

The radeonhd(4) man page indicates that the HD3650 is supported, granted it will take time for the open source drivers to mature.. don't quit at the first sign of failure.

OpenBSD doesn't support binary blob drivers.
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