> > Yeah: don't buy it. Getchaself an NVidia board. I detest NVidia, but ATI > > causes nothing but trouble. > [snip] > Interesting. Do you have personal experience with that card causing > trouble with XF4.1.0 ? Or is it other ATI boards? That particular card > is one of the ones that seems to be highly recommended for RH7.2 for out > of the box 3D support.
from what I've seen; ATI Radeons aren't *well* supported in X 4.1.0; but that release is 6-7 months old now. downright long in the tooth, by some measures. I hear that building CVS X, with the ATI patches from gatos.sourceforge.net, works pretty well with Radeon 7500s, and makes the 8500s function. this is all 3rd-hand knowlege, tho. Just what I've overheard on the Xpert list, and here. I personally am undecided about the whole matter... I've got a Matrox G450; which works pretty well, except when it comes to DRI (the stuff that makes 3D accelleration work)... it'll lock up after a few minutes of most games. No other (cheap) vid board has quite as good multihead support; but unfortunately the matrox X drivers don't seem to be well maintained right now. G400s seem to work reasonably well, tho. (guy here at work has one in his workstation, and plays tuxracer & quake3 just fine) here's my current outlook on vid boards (subject to change on a daily basis): Matrox -- used to be well supported, they actually ship drivers themselves, which are (mostly) open-source. (just some of the more exotic functionality, like TV-out requires a binary module). unfortunately, my G450 has a buggy DRI implementation (and X 4.1.99.1 didn't fix it). the G550 probably functions at a basic level, but I don't know if DRI will work for it. ATI -- supposedly have done a good job of giving out doco to help developers write drivers. support is coming along reasonably well, tho it's imperfect for the most recent boards. NVidia -- great performance, and while their driver is mostly binary-only; it's supposedly done really well. (I've had issues with their driver and an older (TNT2) board, tho). If I were to go out and buy a gaming board right now, it'd be a coin-toss between a Radeon 7500 and a Geforce. Carl Soderstrom. -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises (952) 943-8700 _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
