On 6/21/06, Stephen Hassard <steve@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> Dave Robillard wrote:
> > FWIW I've spent a (very) great deal of time, money, and effort building
> > an (AGP) machine without a card which requires proprietary drivers for
> > decent GL (namely a Radeon 9250).
>
> This seems the best route to go ATM, but does anyone have any
> suggestions for doing something similar with a recent PCI-Express system?
>
> I see that Xorg is starting to support the ATI X800 line of cards using
> the radeon driver, but DRI support seems very early. Also, 2D speed on
> my X800 XL seems quite slow compared to the binary drivers, which is a
> big deterrent from staying with the OSS drivers.
>
> later,
> Steve
>
My nvidia (6600le pci-e) works okay with the open source drivers (nv)
but forget gl stuff unless you use the nvidia drivers.
Loki
Received on Wed Jun 21 04:15:12 2006
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