Thanks Matthias, I read reviews about this card and find it quite impressive. So I ordered a $47.00 9200 SE OEM card from newegg (free shipping). It's a suprise that ATI ca nproduce good card. I was looking at nvidia cards only. Can wait to try out the DVI output on my 17" LCD monitor :)
Toan On Friday 16 July 2004 06:00, Matthias Saou wrote: > Nguyen The Toan wrote : > > Hi, I know this is off topic but I want to ask for some help choosing > > which video card to buy. > > I've just built an AMD64 system, and wanted everything to work "out of the > box" with Fedora Core 2 for x86_64. For the video card, I chose a "Powered > by ATI" (ATI chip, not well known brand) Radeon 9200 SE, which is the > highest performance card which currently has 3D acceleration with the free > drivers found in XFree86 and xorg-x11 (AFAIK of course, my laptop's 9600 > doesn't have 3D acceleration yet for instance). It has VGA, DVI and TV out, > and from what I saw using the Fedora Core default monitor setup utility, it > can output on both the VGA and the DVI at the same time. > > All this for only 37___, which is a little more than the $25 you're > thinking of spending, but for me it's definitely worth the difference! > > Oh, I have been having problems with xmame's xv target though, for which > only a few games seem to work, so I've been using the xgl one for now, but > there is this weird artifact of getting a thin grey diagonal line across > the entire screen with it... I've been waiting for 0.84 to further check > and report these problems, as I don't even know if they're related to the > video driver or to the 64bit architecture ;-) > > In short, if you want good 2D _and_ 3D performance without using > proprietary closed source drivers, the Radeon 9200 is certainly today's > best choice. Remember that freedom is priceless, so it not having to tweak > this and that after every kernel upgrade, or waiting for a vendor to fix > his drivers when they become incompatible with the latest free technologies > (think NVidia and 2.6 kernel, NVidia and 4k kernel stacks, ATI and its > broken xv on recent cards etc.). > > Matthias _______________________________________________ Xmame mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://toybox.twisted.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/xmame
