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Subject: Re: System very unstable
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On 09/29/02 08:00, Elladan wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 07:13:57PM +0800, Michael Clark wrote:
> 
>>On 09/28/02 18:35, David S. Miller wrote:
>>
>>>  From: Felix Seeger <felix.seeger@gmx.de>
>>>  Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 12:33:21 +0200
>>>  
>>>  What card is good (performance for games and 
>>>  a acceptable licenze for kernel developers)?
>>>
>>>ATI Radeon is pretty fast and all except the very latest chips have
>>>opensource drivers.
>>
>>Radeon 7500 is currently the fastest board with an opensource
>>driver that supports 3D. 8500 XFree support is currently 2D only,
>>although apparently work on the opensource GL driver is underway.
> 
> 
> Unfortunately, in my experience the open source Radeon 7500 drivers are
> so unstable as to be basically unusable.  Plus, they seem to still be
> basically incompatible with a lot of 3d software.

Don't know what version of X you've been running, but i haven't
had a problem for over 8 months (since XFree86 4.2). Before then,
the 4.1.99 CVS was needed for radeon support which was of course
a developer branch, although i never experienced the sort of problems
you describe.

Definately rock solid and stable on my 7500 mobility.

~mc

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