Re: Debian support of ATI video cards
On Fre, 2002-12-06 at 03:57, James R. Van Zandt wrote:
>
> Maybe I should get an NVidea card after all. I understand there are
> no open-source accelerated drivers, but there are binary drivers, and
> I see we have these packages:
>
> nvidia-glx-src - NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x driver
> nvidia-kernel-src - NVIDIA binary kernel module
Your choice, but similar packages might appear for ATI's drivers, which
are rather new.
As for support for ATI chips, I'd say only Radeons matter today. Here's
an overview of what the free drivers support:
XFree86 4.2.0: 2D support up to 8500, 3D support up to 7500
My packages: 2D support for all chips (AFAIK), 3D support up to 9000
XFree86 4.3.0: Probably same as my packages
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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