On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 18:26:35 -0400, Kevin Abbey <kevinabbey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The opensource drivers work fine for a single monitor and 2D work. I > support bio-informatics and computational biology applications that > require 3D and OpenGL support. I understand that only the proprietary > drivers support this. Since AMD released the API for the Radeon chips > it is expected that the open source radeon driver will get better in > time. It would be nicer if AMD just merged their code with a license > that allowed external contributions. That depends on what cards you are getting. r500 based cards should have 3d support in current Fedora. I don't know about dual monitor use. My work machine has an rv530 based card and I get some level of 3d support. (I don't actually use 3d in daya to day stuff, but occasionally I fire up some 3d app just to see if it is working.) > In addition to the need for 3d support, I am using two monitors with > the Radeon 3850, 3870 and 4850 (each on a separate computer) so the > proprietary driver makes this easier to setup also. I think these are r600 based cards. Support for those is being worked on. You might try a rawhide snapshot live CD/DVD with some 3d app on it and see if at least some of what you want is working there. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
