recommend a free driver video card?

Thu Sep 6 12:30:03 UTC 2007

Dave Stevens <geek <at> uniserve.com> writes:
> I am setting up a new box with ATI ES1000 video on board. I want to use only 
> free software on it (F7 as the base) and am in a pickle wrt the video. I can 
> set it up initially with the on-board circuit but would like to have a 
> dedicated 3d-accelerated card with a free driver. Does such a thing exist?

Older ATI Radeons (up to r4xx).
In numbers, that would be up to X1050. (Interestingly, X1050 is an r3xx series 
card, X850 is the last r4xx.)
See http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon

        Kevin Kofler