Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > Well, the you have pretty much limited yourself to ATI, ATI, and, well, > ATI.
I did indeed go out and buy an ATI video card. Seems like ATI and NVidia are the only people making graphics chipsets for any reasonable price now. > XFree86 has open source driver support up through the 9200 series, I > think. I used to have a dual head 9200 card, it worked just fine, but I > needed 3D, and the support for that was flaky (it was, in fact, the > crappy 3D support that shifted me from Linux to OS X). I asked in #xorg and up to 9600 is supported. I ended up getting a Radeon X300SE which is supposedly a 9600 chipset on a PCI Express card. Seems to work with the Radeon driver in single head mode. Trying to get dual head mode working but it seems my second monitor may have just died which is making it rather difficult to know when something is working. > After the 9200 (RV250?), ATI no longer released 3D programming info; > however, I think that the 2D dual-head stuff works just fine. Since I just do coding and sysadmin type stuff and just want screen real-estate I don't need 3d. -- Tracy R Reed http://ultraviolet.org -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
