Newer ATI Radeon, ATI FireGL, and Nvidia GeForce/Quadro hardware support

[Mike A. Harris]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Michael Smith wrote:

>Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 05:32:21 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Michael Smith <operalover_99 at yahoo.com>
>To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
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>Subject: Re: Newer ATI Radeon, ATI FireGL,
>     and Nvidia GeForce/Quadro hardware support
>
>Mike,
>
>My motherboard has an ATI chipset with a Radeon IGP
>320, so I removed my Rage 128 AGP card to try out the
>radeon driver. The driver seems to work all right with
>the IGP - no noticable problems.
>
>Results of running glxgears from a terminal window,
>with an Athlon 1800:
>
>       24 bpp  16 bpp
>IGP    208     291
>r-128  561    1009
>
>Guess I'll stick with the Rage for now.

Radeon IGP does not have 3D acceleration support currently and 
wont have it in XFree86 officially until probably 4.5.0.  There 
are experimental patches out there for brave end users to play 
with however, but they wont be included in our OS until they're 
considered stable by DRI and X developers.


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Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat