Which ATI graphics card shall I choose for fedora/rhel

[Ed Greshko]

Kevin Martin wrote:
> 
> 
> Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 07:50:36 -0400,
>>   Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>>  
>>> I have an RV280 radeon card, no 3d, and not expected to ever be.
>>>     
>>
>> I have a 9200 which is rv280 based and it has 3d support in Fedora. I 
>> have
>> played Neverwinter Nights with it (though not recently) under Fedora
>> with the native NWN client using the open source radeon driver.
>>
>> The card is a bit dated now, but it does have the advantage of not 
>> needing
>> its own fan.
>>
>>   
> FWIW, I've got an x1600 running on my Acer laptop and have NEVER been 
> able to get compiz to work correctly (either using the fglrx or the 
> proprietary ATI drivers).  This is with F8.

Yeah, but, FWIW, it may not be valid to compare laptop chipsets with 
chipsets in PCIe/AGP cards.