On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 16:28 -0500, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking at getting a video card, and I want to know what video card > that has 3D acceleration to get. Normally I'd ask on -users but as the > subject says I want to know what video cards will still have > acceleration when the non-free firmware is removed from the kernel, > which is supposed to happen for squeeze. > > I had heard that the ATI cards, which would normally be my first > choice, have non-free firmware in the driver, which may be removed. Is > this true, and if so what accelerated cards will have have acceleration > once non-free firmware is removed. > > I can delay purchase (easily), if the answer to this is not yet known. The kernel team has separated out the radeon firmware as part of the firmware-nonfree package in non-free. So, if you run with non-free enabled and install the firmware-nonfree package, radeon cards will continue to behave as expected. William
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