On Thu, 2005-20-01 at 13:58 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > Guy Fraser wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-19-01 at 13:54 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > >>Matthew Miller wrote: > >> > >>>On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 01:38:19PM -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>>>Advice: only use graphics cards that provide and support open source > >>>>>>drivers. > >>>>> > >>>>>I can't think of any, please provide some links so I can buy one. > >>>> > >>>>Uhm, ATI Radeons? > >>> > >>> > >>>Old ones, yeah. > >> > >>My 9700SE is handled fine by FC3. It's not that old (<6 months). > > > > Does it have HW 3D and multiple display support? > > I don't recall offhand and the machine is at home and not really > available here from the office. > According to some people on this list, some cards are fully supported with the standard drivers. I bought an ATI AIW Radeon 8500 DV about 6 months after it came out. After discoveing that it didn't work I contacted ATI and they told me they had no intention of directly supporting Linux. I suggested they think it over, then I started looking for alternate ways of getting it going. I had some success for a while but ended up putting my ATI AIW Rage 128 back into the machine, and put the Radeon in a windows machine. It seems to me it was a couple of years before a decent driver was supported. I still don't trust ATI's intentions after there comments from a couple years ago.
