Re: Accelerated video driver for XFree86 4.1.0
On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 13:29, Dave Baker wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 12:45:57PM +0100, Charl P. Botha wrote:
>
> > ATM there aren't many consumer-oriented video cards with the 3D performance
> > of the current generation NVidias that have stable open source driver
> > support (and hardware accelerated OpenGL) for XFree86. I do believe that
> > the Radeons are slated to fill this niche, but I don't know what the current
> > status is w.r.t. 3D acceleration.
>
> I can't speak for the earlier Radeon line, but the latest set (7500 and
> 8500) are only supported in the CVS branch of XFree.
True for the 8500, the 7500 can be used with 4.1 though.
> I've gotten 2d to work quite acceptably on my 7500, but no 3d support at
> all.
3D is supported on the 7500.
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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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