[wplug] ATI 9250 vs. Matrox G450

[Robert E. Coutch]

That's odd.

I thought the Radeon 9200 was the last card with open source drivers and that 
the 9250 needed the binary from ATi to do 3D.

Perhaps this is no longer the case?

The best 3D test I found is Chromium.
Check your distro.
If you have hardware 3D Chromium will run and if that hardware is not so 
great, it will run slow.

I recently upgraded the kids' PC here from the onboard Intel graphics to a PCI 
(not express) Nvidia FX5500.  The card was $60 from NewEgg.com
Chromium now ROCKS and they can play Return to Castle Wolfenstein at decent 
frame rates.

I use Nvidia on my system too.  GeForce 6800GS (AGP8x w/256MB).

I really prefer Nvidia's (evil closed source) drivers to ATi's (evil closed 
source) drivers.  What's a nice way to say ATi's drivers suck?

* The evil closed source text was added for the Linux purists and in no way 
reflects my own opinion.



On Tuesday 29 August 2006 04:29 pm, Bryon Gill wrote:
> I've got a Radeon 9250, and it's been quite servicable.  I was running it
> dual-headed for a while (using the dvi and vga outs independently), and now
> I just use it for a 1600x1200 desktop and I really never use the dri
> drivers. It'll run quake 3 reasonably well with the free as in freedom DRI
> drivers, but forget about anything newer than ut2004 as far as games go.
>
> Bryon
>
> On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Ben Beige wrote:
> > Hmm the dual head g450 I have I knw I coudln't get o work w/ quake 3,
> > and was informed that it didn't do 3D, ohh well
> >
> > On 8/29/06, Vance Kochenderfer <vkochend at nyx.net> wrote:
> >> Ben Beige wrote:
> >> > The one major diferance is if you want 3D acceleration for anyhtign
> >> > you want the ATI card, the G450 has no 3D chipset.
> >>
> >> The Matrox G450 (the card I currently have) works under DRI
> >> <http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Matrox> and seems to handle OpenGL
> >> games like Tux Racer and Armagetron OK.
> >>
> >> Or maybe you mean something different by "3D acceleration" than I'm
> >> thinking of?
> >>
> >> Vance Kochenderfer        |  "Get me out of these ropes and into a
> >> vkochend at nyx.net          |   good belt of Scotch"    -Nick Danger
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