3d acceleration support for ATI or other

[Ean Kingston]

On Aug 10, 2007, at 5:53 PM, Ean Kingston wrote:

> Sorry, I hit the wrong reply button.
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: Ean Kingston <ean at istop.com>
>> Date: August 10, 2007 5:52:34 PM EDT (CA)
>> To: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org>
>> Subject: Re: 3d acceleration support for ATI or other
>>
>>
>> On Aug 10, 2007, at 7:28 AM, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:31:44 +0200
>>> Philipp Ost <pj at smo.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Norberto Meijome wrote:
>>>
>>>>> [snipped]
>>>>> OTOH, you can check xorg 7.2 support for 3d cards - if I  
>>>>> understand it
>>>>> correctly, the 9550 is part of the r300 driver [url snipped].
>>>>
>>>> That's right, but the X.org radeon driver only supports 3D  
>>>> acceleration
>>>> up to the rv280. See 'man radeon' for more details ;-)
>>>
>>> 	The radeon driver in modular xorg has experimental 3D acceleration
>>> for r300 and r400 cards.
>>>
>>> [...]
>>
>> Does it work and how difficult is it to get the video card working  
>> properly?
>>
>> [Note:] Based on other information I found, I returned the ATI  
>> 9550 and got a moderately more expensive GeForce 9600 card because  
>> there is much more information about getting them working.  
>> Unfortunately, it is generating vertical fuzzy lines that I can't  
>> get rid of.
>>
Then I realized I needed to adjust the monitor, not the video settings.