[ Thanks to Michael Larabel for this
link. ]
“Jerome Glisse and his posse of open-source developers have been
making good progress with an open-source ‘Avivo’ graphics driver
for the ATI Radeon X1000 (R500) series hardware (see the original
announcement). However, one roadblock they have hit along the way
is with TMDS setting issues on the Radeon X1200, X1300, X1400, and
X1900 series. This roadblock had also led to postponing the Avivo
0.1.0 release. Now if you are an ATI R500 owner and have been
wondering how you can help with the advancement of this open-source
driver, there is a way even without prior development experience
and that is by providing VBE mode-setting BIOS dumps. As you have
probably never created such dumps before, we have written a brief
tutorial on using vbespy/vbetest for the first time…”