Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 08:07:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 08:07:03 -0400 Received: from bg77.anu.edu.au ([150.203.223.77]:62356 "EHLO lassus.himi.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 08:07:01 -0400 Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 22:12:22 +1000 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: System very unstable Message-ID: <20020929121222.GB15961@himi.org> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200209281155.32668.felix.seeger@gmx.de> <20020928.025900.58828001.davem@redhat.com> <200209281233.21897.felix.seeger@gmx.de> <20020928.033510.40857147.davem@redhat.com> <3D958EF5.7080300@metaparadigm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="mxv5cy4qt+RJ9ypb" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D958EF5.7080300@metaparadigm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i From: simon@himi.org (Simon Fowler) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2042 Lines: 58 --mxv5cy4qt+RJ9ypb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 > > Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 12:33:21 +0200 > > =20 > > What card is good (performance for games and=20 > > a acceptable licenze for kernel developers)? > > > >ATI Radeon is pretty fast and all except the very latest chips have > >opensource drivers. >=20 > 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. >=20 > You can get 3D support for the 8500 if you get a commercial > binary only X server ( http://www.xig.com/ ) - although I > guess this is almost as bad as having a binary kernel module > due to the type of hardware access the X server needs to do. >=20 There's also 3D support for the r200 chip (that drives the 8500) in the DRI cvs tree (see http://dri.sf.net): I haven't tried it, since I don't have an 8500, but it's there, and under active development, and seem to work fairly well. Simon --=20 PGP public key Id 0x144A991C, or http://himi.org/stuff/himi.asc (crappy) Homepage: http://himi.org doe #237 (see http://www.lemuria.org/DeCSS)=20 My DeCSS mirror: ftp://himi.org/pub/mirrors/css/=20 --mxv5cy4qt+RJ9ypb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9lu4lQPlfmRRKmRwRAjbkAKCSpKLg2fjOwRb5NMpa3E8OrLdwlwCfaZHw 0KmKDoaIc4GrWYv5BUY0jYA= =Pu4c -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --mxv5cy4qt+RJ9ypb-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/