[Spam] Re: hmmmm, now what - radeon and xorg configuration

[Elizabeth Bonomi]

>Alan Cox wrote:
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>>On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 12:46:14PM +0100, Laurent GUERBY wrote:
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>>>On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 08:30, Mike A. Harris wrote:
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>>>>There is no 100% accurate up to date video hardware support list 
>>>>anywhere, at least not to the best of my knowledge.
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>>>Is there such a list for 3D video harware with fully open source drivers
>>>(no binary thanks) that support at least some of the 3D features of the
>>>hardware? I hope the list is not empty...
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>>Intel have pretty good support for their chipsets and are one vendor who
>>generally fund this stuff for their bits. VIA provided the original 3D
>>code for the CLE266 which is now supported (FC2t lacks some oddments).
>>3DFx Voodoo 3+ work well (except on FC2t right now but thats hopefully
>>going to sort out). Some radeons (7xxx,9000,9100 but not the high end ones),
>>and also rage 128 work well.
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>Agreed, voodoo3 cards work great, out of the box - and you can still 
>find them for sale, cheap.
>
>Intel onboard (i8xx) video chipsets generally work fine too, but I have 
>not had any luck with any ATI chipsets - I have gotten lockups every 
>time I tried an ATI card - and the last time was a few months ago on 
>FC1. If I had the time I'd go through the code and look for locking 
>problems or whatever, but it's just easier to buy a different video card.
>
>Joe
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