Re: Yet another video card question... :) ATI or Matrox for DRI?
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 02:39:49PM +0200, gl wrote:
>
> I am running Alpha PWS 500a with a Matrox G450 PCI.
>
> Now I've got the opportunity to buy an ATI all-in-wonder Radeon SDR PCI
> for a really expensive price considering this card is getting obsolete.
>
> I'd like to know if DRI support is good even with the PCI version.
> I can see with "make xconfig" that kernel requires agpgart selected to
> compile the radeon dri while the context help states the support is done
> for both version.
>
> If there are any users of ati radeon, is its quality good as matrox as
> graphics and video?
I've been using the PCI 32MB SDR Radeon off and on for nearly a year now.
It runs DRI very nicely from 4.1.0 and 4.2.0, provided you have the
correctly built modules for the kernel you are running. It's always
safest to build the modules out of the XFree86 source tree, pointing
at the kernel binary tree for the kernel you wish to run.
I don't know anything about using the additional HW on the A-I-W
version, but for price, I've seen the more recent (simple) Radeon 7000
PCI here for $70 US.
--Jay++
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