Subject: Re: 3D video card recommendations
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
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Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 10:22:59 -0500
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On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 07:10 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On 11/4/05, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

> > I'm looking at the ATI Radeons.
> >
> > Any recommendations? (links to info would also be nice ;-)
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -- Steve
> 
> Not a recommendation. Just a point to be aware of. The ATI Radeons, to
> get the best acceleration, seem to require that you use the ATI closed
> source drivers. Currently I haven't found an ATI closed source driver
> that supports 2.6.14. so I'm forced to use the Xorg radeon driver. I
> have no idea if this is very good. I don't think so as my glxgear
> numbers are pretty low. Much lower than the ATI driver running on
> 2.6.13-X.

I'm sure ATI will come out with a proprietary driver for 2.6.14.  I just
want some 3D accel for working with -rt.  If I want to play a game, I'll
just back out to 2.6.13 and use the ATI binary driver.  But right now
with NVidia, it is either -rt with no accel, or accel with no -rt.

Thanks,

-- Steve


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