From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264482AbTLCE12 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2003 23:27:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264497AbTLCE11 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2003 23:27:27 -0500 Received: from smtp14.eresmas.com ([62.81.235.114]:61840 "EHLO smtp14.eresmas.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264482AbTLCE10 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2003 23:27:26 -0500 Message-ID: <3FCD6604.1020102@wanadoo.es> Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 05:26:44 +0100 From: Xose Vazquez Perez User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 X-Accept-Language: gl, es, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel Subject: Re: ATI boards [was Re: Linux 2.4 future] References: <3FCD5533.8050105@wanadoo.es> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.63.3.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > Actually, the whole R2x0 family seems to be largely supported by the DRI > drivers. Yes, but R200 family(8500 and 9100, aka 8500LE) are the _faster_ ATI out there with FOSS 3D support. ATI was playing with the boards numbers to try to sell more. But 9200 and 9000, based on RV250, are more expensive and slower than any R200 based. ^ > It's the R300-based cards (ATI 9800 & friends) that apparently don't get > any open-source 3D acceleration right now. Last time that I heard about it, 9500/9600/9700/9800 only work on 2D.