Which ATI graphics card shall I choose for fedora/rhel
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Wed Aug 20 10:36:10 UTC 2008
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:24:47AM +0100, Dan Track wrote:
> Thanks for that. My supplier said he can't get that card but he said
> he can get the Saphirre Radeon x1650 Pro 512MB DDR2 AGP VGA DVI TV,
> would you know if that's supported and would work well with fedora 9
> and compiz?
That's an R500 chipset. It'll work in 2d now, and 3D (and with compiz) in
the future. If you need 3D now, you need a much older card -- R200 or R300
chipset. Look at the man page for "radeon" for product name-to-chipset
matching.
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