Re: HARDWARE: Open-Source-Friendly Graphics Cards -- Viable?

[Stephen Lewis]

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 00:45:49 -0400
Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

...
> >Baseline - I can get accelerated 3D graphics and video overlay
> >and YV12 and VGA registers with open source driver that compiles
> >for PowerPC and DEC Alpha today for $85 - Radeon 7500 PCI.
> 
> 'scuse me, but have you tried to buy one of those locally?  The 
> unwashed masses of us are stuck with whatever we can buy at Circuit 
> City et all, and the cheapest thing today for an AGP slot is the 
> house brands of the 9200 SE w/128 megs of ddr ram.

What do you have against eBay?

>...
> Has this links code been substantially updated since the 6.8.1 release 
> as built on an x86 system?  If not, then this common readily 
> available card is still not supported all that well, my lspci outputs 
> say the vendor codes are unknown.  And my glxgears is 198 fps.
> 

Sorry I have no x86 systems.
9200SE is listed as 3d accelerated see here:
http://freedesktop.org/~xorg/X11R6.8.0/doc/radeon.4.html
maybe you do not have dri loaded?

> -- 
> Cheers, Gene

Stephen Lewis
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