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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: DervishD <raul@pleyades.net>
Cc: Ch & Ph Drapela <pcdrap@bluewin.ch>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hardware supported by the kernel
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 10:53:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030908095357.GD10358@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030908092952.GA51@DervishD>

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:29:52AM +0200, DervishD wrote:
 > >  > > - an ATI Gapiccard
 > >  >     I have an ATI card (128 LT Pro) and it's fully supported. IMHO
 > >  > all ATI cards are.
 > > Depends on your definition of 'supported'. Recent ATI cards[*] will
 > > only work in accelerated 3d using their binary only driver.
 > 
 >     A couple of months ago someone on this list said that ATI no
 > longer provides information about their graphics cards, so when I say
 > 'supported' I'm speaking of my particular model, that it's really
 > supported (is a quite old model). When I said 'all ATI cards' I was
 > talking about older models, because I forgot that ATI no longer
 > supports Linux.
 > 
 >     My mistake, sorry. BTW: what graphics cards manufacturer currently
 > supports Linux?. I need to buy a new graphic card for a friend (AGP)
 > and I don't know what one to buy :(((

in the performance/gamer end of the market, you're screwed.

ATI -    Radeon 9200 is AGPx8, supported by open driver (Based on R200 core)
         All other current cards need binary only driver.
Nvidia - Binary only for accelerated 3d.
Matrox - Not exactly a speed demon any more in the 3d market. Open
         drivers though. Not sure about Parhelia.
SiS    - Cards like the Xabre are quite cheap, though unsupported,
         though SiS folks did seemto wnat to help at one point, then
         when quiet.
S3     - Again, poorly performing, specs/drivers are out there.


who did I miss ?

		Dave

-- 
 Dave Jones     http://www.codemonkey.org.uk

  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-08  9:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-06 13:22 Hardware supported by the kernel Ch & Ph Drapela
2003-09-06 13:40 ` DervishD
2003-09-07 22:32   ` Dave Jones
2003-09-08  9:29     ` DervishD
2003-09-08  9:53       ` Dave Jones [this message]
2003-09-08 10:57         ` DervishD
2003-09-08 13:06         ` Alan Cox
2003-09-08 14:56           ` DervishD
2003-09-08 15:10             ` Alan Cox
2003-09-08 15:25               ` DervishD
2003-09-10 14:47                 ` insecure
2003-09-11 10:11                   ` DervishD
2003-09-12  0:26                     ` jw schultz
2003-09-12  9:33                       ` DervishD
2003-09-12 17:54                         ` Pavel Machek
2003-09-08 17:23         ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-09-08 18:10           ` John Stoffel
2003-09-09  7:42             ` Henning Schmiedehausen

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