[wplug] ATI video Card

[Brian Medley]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:11:21AM -0500, Vanco, Donald wrote:

> > I am planning on buying an ATI Radeon 7000 card for one of my
> > machines.  Has anyone had any experience with this card?  Should I
> > expect any problems?  The box will be running either RH 9 or Slack 9,
> > maybe both.   
> 
> 	ATI is probably the best supported video card manufacturer under
> Linux.  You'll find that current versions of XFree have full 2D and 3D
> support for all of the 7xxx and 8xxx families of cards.  Some of the newer
> ones will be 2D only for a time.  The downside is that the slick tools for
> many cards (like my Radeon 8500DV) are still Windoze Only.

I wouldn't call them the best supported card.  They probably have the best
supported open source driver, but until X 4.3 the hardware T&L did not
work.  Nvidia has had this almost since the beginning of their driver
releases.

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