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Re: [suse-amd64] Radeon 9600 SuSE 9.0 64Bit Version
- From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 18:28:05 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <20040321182845.GB307@xxxxxx>
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 12:37:17PM -0500, Bob Fischer wrote:
> Aack!
>
> I haven't (yet) tried to install my NVidia 3-D drivers. They at least
> claim to have made installation "painless" --- but I'll have to wait and
> see on that one.
It's fairly OK, just a few menus to go through. Doing it after every
kernel update, though, is what makes in painful.
> Do ANY graphics card vendors offer painless 3-D support that doesn't
> require you to recompile the kernel? AFAIK, if you want to use your 3-D
> accelerator, your only choice these days is to recompile your kernel. I
> don't think that any graphics vendor has supplied open drivers that can
> be included with a standard Linux distro.
Radeon 9200 works out of the box with open source drivers, 3D
accelerated. It's not top-of-the-pack card, though. Radeon 9200SE needs
XFree86 4.4, though, so be careful.
> In my experience, Radeon cards barely work without their special
> driver. I mean, I don't get 1280x1024 with 24-bit color. My nVidia
> card at least gives me that functionality out of the box.
At least my Radeon 7500's and Mobility M6 both work fine in high-res and
truecolor.
Btw, talking about cards that work on AMD64, does anybody know of a
decent card (preferably quiet, fanless) that'd do dualhead? Matroxes
don't work, as they need the HAL library, which is binary only and
32-bit.
--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
> Aack!
>
> I haven't (yet) tried to install my NVidia 3-D drivers. They at least
> claim to have made installation "painless" --- but I'll have to wait and
> see on that one.
It's fairly OK, just a few menus to go through. Doing it after every
kernel update, though, is what makes in painful.
> Do ANY graphics card vendors offer painless 3-D support that doesn't
> require you to recompile the kernel? AFAIK, if you want to use your 3-D
> accelerator, your only choice these days is to recompile your kernel. I
> don't think that any graphics vendor has supplied open drivers that can
> be included with a standard Linux distro.
Radeon 9200 works out of the box with open source drivers, 3D
accelerated. It's not top-of-the-pack card, though. Radeon 9200SE needs
XFree86 4.4, though, so be careful.
> In my experience, Radeon cards barely work without their special
> driver. I mean, I don't get 1280x1024 with 24-bit color. My nVidia
> card at least gives me that functionality out of the box.
At least my Radeon 7500's and Mobility M6 both work fine in high-res and
truecolor.
Btw, talking about cards that work on AMD64, does anybody know of a
decent card (preferably quiet, fanless) that'd do dualhead? Matroxes
don't work, as they need the HAL library, which is binary only and
32-bit.
--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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