On Wednesday 31 October 2007, Jim Flanagan wrote: > Eberhard Roloff wrote: > > Jim Flanagan wrote: > >> I have an ATI Radeon 9000 AGP card, and am unsure which version of > >> the ATI driver I should run in opensuse 10.3. The one click method > >> says this newer version 8.41.7 is good for radeon 8500 and newer. > >> But he ATI site shows the older version 8.28.8 from Aug 18, 2006 > >> to be the last version that supports this card. Which one should I > >> install?? > > > > Neither one. > > The new version does not support your card. > > > > The older one does not support anything higher than xorg 7.1. > > > > So you are kind of restricted to either use use the opensource > > radeon drivers, just like I do with my Radeon 9200 :-(( > > > > Alternatively you could downgrade to a very old Linux Version with > > xorg 7.1, but I cannot responsibly advise you to do this. > > > > Next time you might go for Nvidia, like I will do. :-) > > > > regards > > Eberhard > > Well.....that's a disappointment. It seems no matter what I do I > never have the right card for opensuse. I won't spend the money on > the new hot cards, and the ones that I think are middle of the road, > well, are too old! I suppose its not opensuse's fault that the ATI > driver does not support xorg v7.2, and I understand their move > forward to new xorg. And ATI does not want to re-write an older > driver to support xorg 7.2. But where does that leave us users? > > End of rant. > > Many thanks for the help. > > Jim F
=========== That's not really true Eberhard. The 8.28.8 version supports his card and xorg 7.2. They just never changed their listing above 7.1, but it did support it. The later drivers, as Jim points out, support only 8500 and up cards, so his 9000 should have no problems. I'm guessing the newer drivers also support up to & beyond xorg 7.2, so that also should provide him his needed support. Since AMD has decided to opensource their drivers, plus all the additional work they've poured into them lately, I suspect nvidia is going to have a hard time keeping up, unless you want to be tied to proprietary drivers. That's not what Linux is about. Now having said that, Jim, you are probably going to get only minor improvements by using the ATI driver on that card. It's well supported with the radeon/ati driver built into xorg already. I haven't used the ATI driver for a very long time on either my 9200 or 9600 cards. 3D performance is quite good. So, Jim, you decide what you want to deal with on your setup, but you should be good either way. regards, Lee -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
