Which ATI graphics card shall I choose for fedora/rhel
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Wed Aug 20 15:24:22 UTC 2008
Kevin Martin wrote:
>
>
> Ed Greshko wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>>
> I mentioned my chip primarily to highlight that the x1600 laptop chipset
> (at least in my case) didn't work with Compiz as opposed to the posting
> by Steve Repo about his x1400 working in a Dell laptop.
Understand... Just didn't want to confuse the OP looking for a card for his
desktop.
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