Re: ATI Radeon Mobility
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 18:39, Jeremy Brooks wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 07:34, David Fokkema wrote:
> > Hi group,
> >
> > Maybe (just maybe) I'll be buying a new laptop. My current laptop has a
> > trident cyberblade i7 card, which sucks under linux. I have flickerings
> > and _no_ 3D acceleration at all. My thoughts are: new hardware, good
> > (perfect?) compatibility with Debian, ;-)
> >
> > Any thoughts on ATI Radeon Mobility 7000, 7500 and alike? You can't
> > download ATI Mobility drivers for linux from their site, :-(. How about
> > the basic XFree 4.2/4.3 drivers? DRI? I understand the 'normal' Radeons
> > are supported quite well, but the Mobility ones? I _really_ want a
> > laptop which doesn't turn out to be incompatible with Debian. And since
> > I'll be paying a _lot_ of money, I want DRI compatibility as well.
> >
> I have an IBM A31 with a Mobility 7500 chip; currently running testing.
> It works well with X4.2; but without 3D hardware acceleration. From
> what I am told, if you use X4.3, hardware acceleration should work.
Don't know about the radeon, but look under the gatos project:
http://gatos.sourceforge.net/overview.php
They have accelerated ati drivers for x 4.2 and 4.3
I use their driver for rage mobility and it works great, at list for 2D
acceleration, don't have anything to test the 3d acceleration though.
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