Simon Fowler wrote:
 > Andy Ross wrote:
 > > All that being said, I'd be curious as you how your experience is with
 > > the XiG drivers.  These provide the only useful Radeon support for
 > > Linux, right now, and are rather reasonably priced.
 >
 > The DRI Radeon drivers aren't useful? They work nicely for me . . .

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the last time I checked the DRI driver
lacked support for the (now almost a year old) 8500 cards, had no
hardware geometry acceleration, nor multitexture support.  These might
"work", in the sense of producing correct results, but they are only
semi-complete at best.  Performance-wise, ATIs windows drivers stomp
all over them.  Whether that consitutes "useful" or not depends on
your perspective, I guess.  I should have picked a better term.

The Xi Graphics folks at least claim to support the full feature set
of the cards.  I was curious as to how well it worked.

Andy

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Andrew J. Ross                NextBus Information Systems
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