Kyro Driver in February
November 30th, 2001 by AlkiniKarl T wrote in to let us know that he recently mailed the PowerVR team to ask about the status status of the Kyro driver. Kristof Beets of PowerVR responded to his mail with:
A PowerVR Technologies Driver Team is currently developing Linux driversfor KYRO. An initial beta driver offering accelerated 2D (X Server) andaccelerated 3D (OpenGL) is expected to be ready for a public release inFebruary 2002. No decision has been made about an Open or Closed Source release.
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
and by that time the card will be outdated. But at least we can hope that the driver will be open source soo that support can live on !
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
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November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
Now is the time everyone should be lobbying PowerVR extremely hard to OS their drivers. PowerVR is really waffling on this one so let’s do our best to help them make up their minds! ;-)
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
Will there be any new Kyro cards? If the card is either better than what Nvidia and ATI or offering or the card is nearly as good and has open source drivers i’d definitely get a Kyro instead. Right now I’ve got a GF2Ultra which should still last a good deal longer before I “need” a new card.
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
I held off buying a kyro based card for ~4 months hoping that linux drivers would be released so I could replace my aging ati 3d rage pro. In the end they lost a sale as I decided to wait no longer and bought a nvidia geforce2 based card instead – and so far I am very happy with it…
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
Unless they are planning to also support their kyro 3 with these drivers, it’s way too late. These drivers won’t be done in Febuary, they’ll be ALPHA in Febuary. The card is already a year old, and by the time the drivers are final, it’ll be 2 years old.