Compatible graphic card

[Jay Estabrook]

On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 12:03:05PM +0100, Steven Moix wrote:
> 

> With AC3's recent release it's time to upgrade my PC164LX system,
> the good old Matrox Millenium is very sluggish under Gnome and I'm
> shopping for a replacement. I was looking at a 64MB ATI Radeon 7000
> PCI from Sapphire, you can get them for about 30??? on eBay. My
> question is quite obvious: do these cards work on 164LX systems?

Currently, all Radeons I've tested EXCEPT the original R100/7200
appear to work just fine under AC3 (the problem and fix with R100/7200
is known, but not in our code base); and they all are capable of
running 3D apps, though "compiz" is a bit of a stretch, still... ;-}

Those that have been successful for me are:

	RV100 aka 7000/VE
	RV200 aka 7500
	R200  aka 9100
	RV280 aka 9250
	
Most have 64MB of memory; although the 9250 has 256, I've not noticed
any benefit so far... :-\

Some are 64-bit memory bus (7000 and some 7500s), the others are
128-bit bus, and thus have the capability of better performance.

A while ago, the 7000 support was a bit unstable on Alpha, but the
current support seems pretty solid.

Note for those with Alphas that have working AGP support, the R300
based 9700/FireGL X1 appear to be supported by the same ATI driver
code base we are using (xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.6.3-1, for FC6); I'm going
to try putting one in an AGP-capable ES45 and see what happens... :-)

Good luck.

 --Jay++

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