On Wednesday 22 October 2008 19:12:50 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.
There are no open source drivers that provide 2D or 3D acceleration for r600 and newer cards at the moment, unfortunately. Adam -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
