Re: Phil meet y-devel; y-devel meet Phil

Rogelio M.Serrano Jr. <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.graphics.y.devel
Message-ID <1b30f7efca7602fab00a069b89b28792@master>
On 2004-07-20 02:33:17 +0800 Tomáš Chaloupka <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ulrik Mikaelsson wrote:
> 
>> Personally, I'm considering to try out the new Radeon cards, and see what 
>> ATI
>> have been up to this years. I'm probably in for disappointment, but since 
>> I'm
>> used to the nVidia-drivers, I think I can take it. Anyone running a somewhat
>> fresh Radeon-card under Linux (and 2.6) that can tell me how it's working 
>> for
>> you?
>> 
>> Regards
>> / Ulrik
> 
> 
> If u want to be really disappointed, then go and buy the most expensive ATI 
> card :)
> Trust me, I've got one and ATI's support is really horrible. Just look on the 
> posts at www.rage3d.com in linux section. Mayby it should be better in time, 
> but I thing at least three generations of NV cards past through my desktop 
> computer then I again decide tu put my money for an ATI card :)
> 
> 

dont go beyond rv280. Im using a 9200se and its ok. I think the best R200 chipset based card you can use is the firegl 8800 if you can find one. most important thing is i can do non-X things with dri driver. Im debugging miniglx and glitz right now so i can do hardware accel compositing.
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