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 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _______________________________________________ > Xpert mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert > _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
