From: simon@himi.org (Simon Fowler)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: System very unstable
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 22:12:22 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020929121222.GB15961@himi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D958EF5.7080300@metaparadigm.com>
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On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 07:13:57PM +0800, Michael Clark wrote:
> On 09/28/02 18:35, David S. Miller wrote:
> > From: Felix Seeger <felix.seeger@gmx.de>
> > Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 12:33:21 +0200
> >
> > What card is good (performance for games and
> > a acceptable licenze for kernel developers)?
> >
> >ATI Radeon is pretty fast and all except the very latest chips have
> >opensource drivers.
>
> Radeon 7500 is currently the fastest board with an opensource
> driver that supports 3D. 8500 XFree support is currently 2D only,
> although apparently work on the opensource GL driver is underway.
>
> You can get 3D support for the 8500 if you get a commercial
> binary only X server ( http://www.xig.com/ ) - although I
> guess this is almost as bad as having a binary kernel module
> due to the type of hardware access the X server needs to do.
>
There's also 3D support for the r200 chip (that drives the 8500) in
the DRI cvs tree (see http://dri.sf.net): I haven't tried it, since
I don't have an 8500, but it's there, and under active development,
and seem to work fairly well.
Simon
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-29 12:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-28 9:15 System very unstable Felix Seeger
2002-09-28 9:32 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-28 9:34 ` Felix Seeger
2002-09-28 9:50 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-28 9:55 ` Felix Seeger
2002-09-28 9:59 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-28 10:10 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-28 10:04 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-28 10:33 ` Felix Seeger
2002-09-28 10:35 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-28 11:02 ` FD Cami
2002-09-28 10:48 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-28 11:13 ` Michael Clark
2002-09-29 0:00 ` Elladan
2002-09-29 5:50 ` Michael Clark
2002-09-29 7:37 ` Elladan
2002-09-29 12:12 ` Simon Fowler [this message]
2002-09-28 11:35 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-28 11:34 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-29 0:42 ` Kristofer T. Karas
2002-09-28 10:08 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-28 10:36 ` Felix Seeger
2002-09-28 12:46 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2002-09-29 18:06 ` Felix Seeger
2002-09-28 10:23 ` Marc Giger
2002-09-28 10:31 ` Felix Seeger
2002-09-29 5:41 Dieter Nützel
2002-09-30 6:47 ` Kristofer T. Karas
2002-10-01 12:32 ` Dieter Nützel
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