Ben Rosenberg wrote:
Ken,
Did you go look at XFree86's site to see if they ACTUALLY do support 3D with the Radeon? SuSE really does only use what XFree produces. If it does support it .. you would be more apt to find the answer there. The last thing I knew was that the only Xservers that supported 3D with that card were xig's Accelerated X. Give a look over at Xfree's site. I am interested in this as well because a friend of mine is looking at me for advice on whether or not to get a Radeon or wait for the GeForce3.
Thanks for the tip Ben. I did check there last night and here what they said on their driver status page: "Accelerated support is provided for Mach64, Rage, Rage 128 and Radeon chips. Unaccelerated support is provided for all of the others except the Mach8 and some early Mach32 chips by the "ati" driver." What I don't understand is how 3D support can be there in XFree3, but not in XFree4? This pertains not to the Radeon, but my RivaTNT2. I get 3D out the kazoo in XFree 3, but zippo in XFree 4.0.2. Ken -- "We can build a better product than Linux..." -- Microsoft VP Jim Allchin