Haim Ashkenazi wrote:
Hi I'm thinking of bying Hercules 3D Prophet 9600, so I googled for it. I didn't find many matches (on the debian lists), and most of them were in french, so I was wondering is that good or bad? Is this card well supported? I know that ATI released drivers for it, but the few matches I've found scared me... thanx -- Haim
Anything greater than a Radeon 9000 (or 9200 I think) will not currently have support in the opensource XFree86/DRI drivers. But the proprietary drivers available from ATi will work with XFree86 versions 4.1, 4.2, or 4.3. They distribute it as an RPM, but they also provide suggestions on how to use alien (just 'apt-get install alien' to install) to install the driver under Debian. If you are interested in running a 2.6 kernel, or otherwise making lots of changes to your system, you would probably be better with a 9000 or 9200, as they will likely work out of the box (though you will need XFree86 4.3 from experimental or from apt-get.org). -Roberto
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