Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Nov 2005 11:24:43 -0500 (EST) | From | Gerhard Mack <> | Subject | Re: 3D video card recommendations |
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On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Jerome Glisse wrote: > On 11/7/05, Ville Syrjälä <syrjala@sci.fi> wrote: > > On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:55:13 +0000, Hugo Mills wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 07:42:51AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > >> On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 08:42 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > >> > > >> > people who buy a 3D card for linux that depends on a closed source > > >> > module take a few risks, and they should be aware of them (I suspect > > >> > they are) so let me make some of them explicit: > > >> > > >> 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 :) > > > > > > http://www.xgitech.com/ > > > > > > Not the fastest pieces of hardware out there by some way, but they > > > _do_ have open-source drivers. > > > > That's not entirely true. The DRI driver is closed source. > > > > DRI closed source ? You mean the fglrx driver from ati ? > > Anyway my advice would be to look at dri project an > see the supported card list. http://dri.freedesktop.org > if you want a card with open source 3d driver. > > ATI & Intel graphics chipset seems to have the best > open source support i am aware of. For ATI the r300/r400 > (radeon 9500-9800/ X300-X800) support is still > experimental (IIRC there are PCI-E issues). > > best, > Jerome Glisse
FGLRX won't function at all with 2.6.14 and requires patching to work with 2.6.13.
And your right there are PCI-E issues.. the cards work but no direct rendering is supported although I did see some patches head to Linus that fix that. (waiting for the next pre release so mine will work.. I should really sit down and learn GIT)
Gerhard
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