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Re: [PLUG] OT: Video Card Choice
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You're thinking of the 8500. The 7500 has support through DRI, but none
through ATI's binary FireGL driver.
The 7500 has some bugs left in the DRI code yet. If you're looking to game,
I hate to say it, but the GF2 Ti is a much better choice. For more
comprehensive OpenGL support, a Radeon 1 (64MB VIVO, 7200, 7000, etc) would
be a decent choice, and quite affordable. If you're feeling bold, the 8500
is fairly cheap, and the new modules are supposed to be pretty nice. There
are a few small stability issues, but they're less severe than the 7500's,
IIRC.
Rich 'Forge' Mingin
www.tech-report.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Brosius" <kbrosius@kns.com>
To: <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] OT: Video Card Choice
> >
> > Now, I do have a Radeon card in my box at work, which has some openGL
> > support. Do any of you know of a good place to start looking for kernel
> > modules/ drivers for it?
>
> Doesn't dri.sf.net have some Radeon support? Although it depends on
> which board. There was recent discussion on the #xfree86 channel about
> the 7500? (maybe, I don't recall exactly) because the 3d support isn't
> available yet, except that the FIREGL 8800 video card driver is partly
> working on it (which comes from the FIREGL manuf's website, not dri.)
>
> --
> Kevin Brosius
>
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