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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
> >  =20
> >   What card is good (performance for games and=20
> >   a acceptable licenze for kernel developers)?
> >
> >ATI Radeon is pretty fast and all except the very latest chips have
> >opensource drivers.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
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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