Thomas J. Baker wrote: > On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 15:44 -0700, Corbin Simpson wrote: >> Thomas J. Baker wrote: >>> What's the current (Fedora 10 current) best ATI chipset/driver >>> combination that has a GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE of at least 4096? I got an >>> R300 for F9 but it only supported a max texture of 2048 so compiz didn't >>> work correctly. I want to find a relatively cheap ($100 or so) best >>> supported 3D capable (compiz, googleearth, low end game 3D) card. Also, >>> was the 2048 an R300 limit, or a chipset limit? >> The r5xx series (X1xxx) is supported by F9 and has full open-source >> compiz support. The best card in the series is the X1950, and it runs >> about $80 or so on Newegg, sometimes less. >> >> Also, the limit is a chipset limit, not a driver limit. >> >> ~ C. >> > > Thanks for the info. I figured it was a chipset issue. I should clarify > too that the R300 works perfectly well, just not with my two monitors. > > Is the support any worse with the r6xx series? Newegg has some 3850 > cards that are cheaper than the $150 X1950s they currently have.
Wow, for some reason, the cheap X1950s are all gone. The X1650s aren't much slower, and should work fine for your purposes; I only mentioned the X1950 because it (used to be?) comparitively cheap. Anyway, no, there's *no* acceleration in the HD 2xxx series and up, so unless you're willing to brave the horrors of fglrx, I'd stick with something in the 1xxx series. ~ C. -- ~ Corbin Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
