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On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 07:10 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 11/4/05, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote: > > I'm looking at the ATI Radeons. > > > > Any recommendations? (links to info would also be nice ;-) > > > > Thanks, > > > > -- Steve > > Not a recommendation. Just a point to be aware of. The ATI Radeons, to > get the best acceleration, seem to require that you use the ATI closed > source drivers. Currently I haven't found an ATI closed source driver > that supports 2.6.14. so I'm forced to use the Xorg radeon driver. I > have no idea if this is very good. I don't think so as my glxgear > numbers are pretty low. Much lower than the ATI driver running on > 2.6.13-X. I'm sure ATI will come out with a proprietary driver for 2.6.14. I just want some 3D accel for working with -rt. If I want to play a game, I'll just back out to 2.6.13 and use the ATI binary driver. But right now with NVidia, it is either -rt with no accel, or accel with no -rt. Thanks, -- Steve - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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