From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264487AbTLCDmO (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2003 22:42:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264492AbTLCDmO (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2003 22:42:14 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:49832 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264487AbTLCDmM (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2003 22:42:12 -0500 Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 19:42:08 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Xose Vazquez Perez cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: ATI boards [was Re: Linux 2.4 future] In-Reply-To: <3FCD5533.8050105@wanadoo.es> Message-ID: References: <3FCD5533.8050105@wanadoo.es> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: > Harald Arnesen wrote: > > > I second that. I have an ATI Radeon 9200, and I can play Tuxracer, > > America's Army (BOO!), and any other 3D-game without any problem. > > Torvalds was talking about R200 chip. Those boards are 8500, and > 9100/8500 LE. IMO they are the best for FOSS. Actually, the whole R2x0 family seems to be largely supported by the DRI drivers. The newer cards just need a recent enough DRI server to know about them, but they should otherwise be ok. It's the R300-based cards (ATI 9800 & friends) that apparently don't get any open-source 3D acceleration right now. (But hey, I may be wrong - I follow the DRI stuff only sporadically). Linus