On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 15:11, Sven LUTHER wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 01:25:39PM +0200, Michel D�nzer wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 11:49, Eric Deveaud wrote: > > > > > > my boss told me that christmas is comming now, I can order a new bi G4. > > > with a 17' ADC flat panel > > > > You've got a nice boss. :) > > > > > I think I will order the following: > > > biG4 1.25GHz > > > 1Gb SDRAM > > > 2 UltraSCSI 72 Gb > > > ATI Radeon 9000 > > > SCSI card > > > > > > > > > I want to now about the Xfree support of the radeon9000 (I don't want > > > a nvidia card) > > > As far as I understood the Xfree documentation, the radeon familly is > > > supported. am I correct, or should I order an other card > > > > Well, the 9000 series is the third generation of Radeon cores, and AFAIK > > No, the 9000 is just a cheaper 8500 with a few modifications, it still > uses the R200 core,
Whoops, I'm too confident in ATI's naming scheme... thanks for pointing this out. > but i am not sure to what point the modifications > would need adaptation of the R200 drivers. I'd expect being able to get it working with 4.2.0 (maybe even 3D with the r200 branch in DRI CVS) with a bit of fiddling. > > it might be different enough to the earlier generations for it not to > > work out of the box. However, ATI has already submitted a patch to > > XFree86 to add support, it should be in 4.3.0 and could probably be > > backported if necessary. > > I guess the difficult thing will be support for the 9500/9700 boards. Right. > BTW, do you know if this patch includes support for video stuff ? No idea. > The radeon 9000 (as the 9500/9700) use the pixel shaders to do video, if i > understood this well. I'd think that only applies to things like motion compensation and iDCT, I'd be surprised if they didn't have an overlay and I don't expect it to be incompatible either. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
