r300 driver stability

[Sam Varshavchik]

Andras Simon writes:

> On 5/31/07, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> wrote:
>> Andras Simon writes:
>>
>> > On 5/31/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> >> Andras Simon wrote:
>> >> > I'm putting together a new box that is going to have Fedora 7 (x86_64
>> >> > if it matters) on it. The last remaining component I haven't made up
>> >> > my mind on is the video card. I don't need stellar 3D performance (a
>> >> > little hardware 3D acceleration would be nice though), but I'm very
>> >> > much concerned about stability. Having been bitten in the past by the
>> >> > proprietary NVidia drivers, this time I'm leaning towards the r300
>> >> > series of ATI cards, as they are supported by OS drivers. (Actually,
>> >> > I'd prefer one of the r200 series of cards, but I haven't found one
>> >> > with a PCIe interface.) But since the r300 driver is based on reverse
>> >> > engineering, I'm not sure if this is a safe choice. Could someone who
>> >> > uses it tell about his/her experiences, especially stability-wise?
>> >> >
>> >> > Andras
>> >>
>> >> Have you considered Intel? I believe they provide the only vendor
>> >> supplied open drivers that support 3D.
>> >
>> > It's too late for that. I already have the motherboard...
>>
>> He meant Intel's video card, they don't make only CPUs:
>>
>> http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/d945gnt/index.htm
>>
>> This video card should be supported on Fedora 7 out of the box, with
>> accelerated 3D.  Ask on the fedora-users mailing list, it is monitored by
>> Intel's employees; I'm pretty sure that it's good to go, but you should try
>> to get a confirmation from the horse's mouth.
> 
> Perhaps I'm missing something, but this looks like a motherboard to
> me, not a video card.

Hmmm, you might be right.  Google let me down :-(


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