On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 16:29 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Itamar Reis Peixoto <itamar <at> ispbrasil.com.br> writes: > > Anyone can recommend me a good agp video card to > > use with linux ? > > Radeon 9250. If that's not good enough for you, you can get any Radeon up to > X850, the r300 driver works pretty well these days as far as I know. But STAY > CLEAR of any Radeon above that! R5xx-series chipsets only work with the > proprietary fglrx driver which causes all sorts of problems (or with the > completely unaccelerated vesa). You have been warned! > > If you want the cheapest you can get, that would be the Radeon 7000. But it > will probably suck for Compiz/Beryl. > > See this page for details: > http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon > > Not that ATI/AMD really deserves your money as they aren't doing anything > whatsoever to help out the Free drivers, whereas Intel does, but unfortunately > you have to replace the entire motherboard (and realistically, the CPU too, > unless you happen to have a recent Intel CPU) to use Intel's graphics chipsets. > > Kevin Kofler ATI on linux just sux get a nvidia and you will be very happy, nvidia works great install then card then do a yum install kmod-nvidia edit your xorg.config(if you need to) then enable compiz and your off and running. LostSon
