Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Sep 2002 13:50:36 +0800 | From | Michael Clark <> | Subject | Re: System very unstable |
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On 09/29/02 08:00, Elladan wrote: > On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 07:13:57PM +0800, Michael Clark wrote: > >>On 09/28/02 18:35, David S. Miller wrote: >> >>> From: Felix Seeger <felix.seeger@gmx.de> >>> Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 12:33:21 +0200 >>> >>> What card is good (performance for games and >>> a acceptable licenze for kernel developers)? >>> >>>ATI Radeon is pretty fast and all except the very latest chips have >>>opensource drivers. >> >>Radeon 7500 is currently the fastest board with an opensource >>driver that supports 3D. 8500 XFree support is currently 2D only, >>although apparently work on the opensource GL driver is underway. > > > Unfortunately, in my experience the open source Radeon 7500 drivers are > so unstable as to be basically unusable. Plus, they seem to still be > basically incompatible with a lot of 3d software.
Don't know what version of X you've been running, but i haven't had a problem for over 8 months (since XFree86 4.2). Before then, the 4.1.99 CVS was needed for radeon support which was of course a developer branch, although i never experienced the sort of problems you describe.
Definately rock solid and stable on my 7500 mobility.
~mc
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