3d acceleration support for ATI or other

[Norberto Meijome]

On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 19:29:29 -0400
Ean Kingston <ean at istop.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to make an older system last a bit longer. To that end,  
> I've upgraded the video card to an ATI Radeon 9550 (agp). I found  
> some old information online indicating that AMD would be releasing  
> proprietary drivers for it to support the 3d acceleration. I can't  
> find them. Any recent updates on this front?

Hi Ean,
Not sure on the status on  AMD's release. 

OTOH, you can check xorg 7.2 support for 3d cards - if I understand it correctly, the 9550 is part of the r300 driver ( http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon?value=CategoryHardware#head-2f5098616350345fc8b9d26888cb729d63303cf2 ).

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