Download ATI's binary firegl drivers on their website, www.ati.com.  It
will work fine with pretty much all 8500 cards.  Performance is very good
from what I've done locally.


ani


On 1 Aug 2002, Nelson Bartley wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> Though I'm sure this topic is covered often, and I understand that ATI
> is working on Firegl 8800 drivers, is there currently any way to have a
> R200 (8500) based ATI video card have "acceptable" performance?
>
> I'm about to enable glx, and I would like to hope that it will work
> after turning that option on, however I wonder if there is anything else
> I can do to increase performance.
>
> Is it still the accepted standard that if you want 3d Performance under
> linux that you have to aquire an NVIDIA card and use their binary
> drivers?
>
> Thanks for the info guys,
>
> Nelson "Gizmo" Bartley
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