My Radeon 64M DDR works excellent under SuSE. -----Original Message----- From: Ed Harrison [mailto:ed.tman@verizon.net] Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2001 2:23 PM To: Nick Webb; SuSE Linux Mailing List Subject: Re: [SLE] Which Radeon ** Reply to message from Nick Webb <nickw@uidaho.edu> on Tue, 30 Oct 2001 01:07:51 -0800 # Okay, I've decided to get a new video card and have narrowed it down to a ATI # Radeon of some sort. The question is, which one? I see the 64MB DDR version # for $150, but I hear the latest 8500 (also with 64MB of DDR) is faster than the # GForce3 (at least in windows) for $200. $150 is really close to the top of what # I would like to pay, but if the 8500 has more than twice the performance (which # is what I hear on the windows side) then maybe it's worth it. The benchmarks # out there are sparse, and are done with windows, so I would like to hear any # experiences from the users on this list. QuakeIIIA FPS would be a nice # benchmark if anyone can ;). I just bought a 7500 AGP with 64Mb DDR and a TV Wonder. After 3 days of no luck, it goes back tomorrow. SuSE hardware db says that Radeon QD, QE, QR models,etc are problematic. That is an understatement. The only thing I got out of this card was console output--white on black. Anything to do with X was a no-go. Sax2 will not run in a resolution small enough to see the whole screen to configure it. It is not listed in the db under xf86config4. I manually wrote a /etc/X11/XF86Config file, using the SaX2 file for my Xpert 2000 r128 card. I did this to get TV, DVD, etc, but it will not be with this card. I got a list of ATI cards that are supposed to work under linux at linuxvideo.org/gatos, also the ones at suse.com's hardware db. Gool luck. Ed Harrison, broadcasting on ----/ / _ ---/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ --/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / -/____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ by SuSE(7.2), Kernel 2.4.13, X 4.1 or Windows98 (running in vmware 3.0beta for fun) PolarBarMailer 1.21b with IBM JDK 1.3.0 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the archives at http://lists.suse.com