> > Radeon 9000 is supported in Xorg and as far as i know was already supported
> > in Xfree86. The open-source driver works fine for me (Radeon 9200SE).
>
> Indeed. Mesa will provide direct render acceleration on these cards without
> using the proprietary driver. Since the 9000 is really too old to run modern
> games, I suspect it will be more than adequate.
Maybe I am doing something wrong but Mesa is awfully slow.
I don't need highend acceleration but I can't even play tuxracer.
Maybe I missed something???
gl-info says:
GL_VENDOR = "Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org"
GL_RENDERER = "Mesa GLX Indirect"
GL_VERSION = "1.3 Mesa 4.0.4"
GL_EXTENSIONS = "GL_ARB_imaging GL_ARB_multitexture GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp GL_ARB_texture_cube_map GL_ARB_texture_env_add GL_ARB_texture_env_combine GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3 GL_ARB_transpose_matrix GL_EXT_abgr GL_EXT_blend_color GL_EXT_blend_minmax GL_EXT_blend_subtract GL_EXT_texture_env_add GL_EXT_texture_env_combine GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3 GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias "
> I'd investigate the open source solution, because ATI's proprietary driver is
> poor quality, even for your average binary vendor.
yep, just like nvidias drivers. I had very bad experiences with them.
Thanks,
Andy.
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