Do ATI (or other vendors) open-source drivers support hardware 3D acceleration? I thought that only NVidia does this, as some linux games demand NVidia 3D drivers. Pavel. > -----Original Message----- > From: Dennis Gilmore [mailto:dennis@dgilmore.net] > Sent: Tue, November 19, 2002 10:54 AM > To: psyche-list@redhat.com > Subject: Re: Video Card recommendation > > > I would like to know why you must use drivers provided by the > manufacter? From my experience i used to have a tnt2 card i > used nvidia > drivers with and had x problems from time to time. I now use a ati > radeon 7000 which performs better. and is more stable with x > using the > drivers included in x which are based off of ati's > specifications. ATI > may not release Drivers but they support there hardware in the open > source arena in a way nvidia never will. and that is letting people > know how there hardware works and allowing the distributions > to release > a product that will perform properly out of the box. > > Isn't it better to know how the code will interact with the kernel > rather than applying unknown code to the kernel with unknown > problems. > I have seen in magazines here so called experts saying that ATI should > be avoided as they do not support linux. To me it seems that they are > supporting linux much more than what nvidia does. Its a known fact > that microsoft sees nvidias code for there drivers they know what to > expect from that code. Nvidia does not show that curtesy to the open > source movement. > > > Dennis > > On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 08:08, Jorge Boscán Etura wrote: > > 4 Linux; use Nvidia Geforce4 or Matrox Parhelia ATI does not produce > > drivers 4 Linux as far as i know > > > > > > > > > > El lun, 18-11-2002 a las 17:18, Keith Winston escribió: > > > On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 14:37, Alejandro González Hernández > - Imoq wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 08:29, Tom Georgoulias wrote: > > > > > > > > > An ATI Radeon 7500 is a good card that meets your > criteria. It has > > > > > hardware acceleration under xfree86, is supported by > RHL right out of > > > > > the box, and doesn't require vendor provided drivers > to get good 3D > > > > > performance (even though you only want 2D). > > > > > > > > > > > > What about the ATI Radeon 8500? I just saw one with my > local dealer, > > > > that is pledging for being bought :D > > > > > > > > Does this card have RHL support? > > > > > > The Radeon 8500 for the PC is one of the very few cards > that ATI has > > > written Linux drivers for. You can download them at the > ATI web site. > > > I haven't heard if they work well or not. > > > > > > If you select ATI Radeon 8500 in the Red Hat display > settings applet, > > > you get the same driver as the 7500 (radeon). Again, I don't know > > > anyone who has one of these so I can't comment on how > well it works. > > > > > > Best Regards, > > > Keith > > > -- > > > LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ > > > We drive on this highway of fire > > > Got spam? Get spastic http://spastic.sourceforge.net > > -- > > Jorge Boscán Etura <joretur@uft.edu.ve> > > Universidad Fermín Toro > -- > Dennis Gilmore <dennis@dgilmore.net> > -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
