Re: ATI Video Card Support
On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 12:34:19PM -0800, Wim Kerkhoff wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> What ATI Video cards are best supported by Linux and X Windows? I was thinking
> of:
> ATI Xpert 98
> ATI Xpert@Play
> XTI Xpert 99
> ATI Xpert 128
> ATI Rage Fury
> ATI All-in-Wonder 128
>
> What experiences does anyone else have with these cards?
I have an Xpert @work 98 (PCI 8MB) and it works fairly good in X, not so
good in console yet (SVGAlib support is iffy/depreciated, fb is still
being worked on)
There is a GLX (3D hardware acceleration/opengl) module in development
at utah-glx.openprojects.net (I think) which I found while looking for
Matrox info, interestingly enough. On my K6/233, my framerate jumped
from about 0.2fps with software rendering to about 37fps with hardware
acceleration (as according to the gears demo in the Mesa source)
I hear the AGP cards work better (but you neet the agpgart support from
the development kernel) but I have none to test. And 16bpp seems to be a
bit faster on the rendering.
Hope this helps.
>
> I am getting a new system (Intel Celeron 466), and want a card that will work
> well with that and a 17" monitor. It should be good for normal X usage at
> resolutions at and over 1280x1024x32, games, etc.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wim Kerkhoff
> wim@netmaster.com
> www.canadianhomes.net/wim
>
>
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