Re: 3D video card recommendations

From: Xavier Bestel
Date: Mon Nov 07 2005 - 09:00:07 EST


On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 15:24, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Llu, 2005-11-07 at 07:42 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > Are there good 3D cards that don't depend on a proprietary module, that
> > can run on a AMD64 board? That was pretty much my questing to begin
> > with :)
>
> Some of the radeons - R3xx is pretty close to usable R2xx works well.
> Support for running 32bit hardware accelerated apps on 64bit kernel
> recently went in.

I'm using a Radeon 9600 (R350) with debian packages (32bits userspace,
64bits kernel) since a few weeks, and it works very well, apart from a
few visual glitches here and there (the only GL apps I use are some free
games, blender and some screensavers). The only thing I had to recompile
was the drm moduleset.

xav


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