On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Willie Wonka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hiya folks; > > Just want to notify you guys that perhaps we can add an entry to "man radeon" > for the 9550 ati cards, it appears they are *rv360* like the line mentions for > the 9800XT --> > > R360 Radeon 9800XT (2d only) > > ... also ... the maybe an entry for the 9250, which AFAICT is *rv280* (cf: > http://users.erols.com/chare/video.htm search page for rv280 to jump down to > spot where all the rv* are matched with model numbers). > > I mention this for a few reasons; (yes i realize they are all old now) but > that > 3D cutoff point for rv300 and up is still a big deal for some of us trying to > stay away from (in this case Ati) binary blobs. I ain't no expert as to how > well 3D works on these lower than rv300 cards, nor the Dual screen > capabilities, tv out etc. functions, ...nor do i know all the details of what > the newer 'radeonhd' addresses.
3D, dualhead, etc. is supported on all r1xx-r5xx radeons in the open source radeon driver. r6xx radeons are supported but not accelerated. The radeonhd driver supports r5xx and r6xx radeons only. Alex _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
