Fwd: 3d acceleration support for ATI or other

[Ean Kingston]

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.
>