Which ATI graphics card shall I choose for fedora/rhel

[Sam Varshavchik]

Dan Track writes:

> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:24:47AM +0100, Dan Track wrote:
>>> Thanks for that. My supplier said he can't get that card but he said
>>> he can get the Saphirre Radeon x1650 Pro 512MB DDR2 AGP VGA DVI TV,
>>> would you know if that's supported and would work well with fedora 9
>>> and compiz?
>>
>> That's an R500 chipset. It'll work in 2d now, and 3D (and with compiz) in
>> the future. If you need 3D now, you need a much older card -- R200 or R300
>> chipset. Look at the man page for "radeon" for product name-to-chipset
>> matching.
>>
> 
> Great thanks for that. From what you said does that mean I can't run
> compiz on fedora 9?

That's what he said.


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