On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Mark Knecht <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > Sorry for the sort of vague nature of the questions here. I'm > starting to look around for a new card. I would prefer fanless if > possible and that limits my choices quite a bit. > > In terms of performance with the Open Source ATI drivers how are > the 5500 and 5600 series of chips? Are they well supported? Mostly I'm > 2D with the hope of a little bit of gaming maybe once a month for a > few hours. I'd like reasonable 3D performance down the road even if > it's not there now. > > I haven't found any 5700 or higher fanless cards yet but I haven't > looked very hard. > > How is the driver support these days for the 5500 and higher based > cards? Anything I should watch out for? Any plans to support or not > support either the 5570 or 5670 series? Is the 5670 noticeably better > for gaming? I presume they're all about the same for getting KDE up on > the screen? >
Evergreen cards (HD5xxx) have modesetting support only at the moment in the open source driver. Acceleration support has been started and will come eventually. Alex _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
