Re: 3D video card recommendations

[Gerhard Mack <gmack@innerfire.net>]

On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Jerome Glisse wrote:
> On 11/7/05, Ville Syrjälä <syrjala@sci.fi> wrote:
> > On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:55:13 +0000, Hugo Mills wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 07:42:51AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > >> On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 08:42 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > people who buy a 3D card for linux that depends on a closed source
> > >> > module take a few risks, and they should be aware of them (I suspect
> > >> > they are) so let me make some of them explicit:
> > >>
> > >> Are there good 3D cards that don't depend on a proprietary module, that
> > >> can run on a AMD64 board?  That was pretty much my questing to begin
> > >> with :)
> > >
> > >    http://www.xgitech.com/
> > >
> > >    Not the fastest pieces of hardware out there by some way, but they
> > > _do_ have open-source drivers.
> >
> > That's not entirely true. The DRI driver is closed source.
> >
> 
> DRI closed source ? You mean the fglrx driver from ati ?
> 
> Anyway my advice would be to look at dri project an
> see the supported card list. http://dri.freedesktop.org
> if you want a card with open source 3d driver.
> 
> ATI & Intel graphics chipset seems to have the best
> open source support i am aware of. For ATI the r300/r400
> (radeon 9500-9800/ X300-X800) support is still
> experimental (IIRC there are PCI-E issues).
> 
> best,
> Jerome Glisse

FGLRX won't function at all with 2.6.14 and requires patching to work with 
2.6.13.

And your right there are PCI-E issues.. the cards work but no direct 
rendering is supported although I did see some patches head to Linus that 
fix that. (waiting for the next pre release so mine will work.. I should 
really sit down and learn GIT)  

	Gerhard
 

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