Which ATI graphics card shall I choose for fedora/rhel

[Kevin Martin]

Ed Greshko wrote:
> Kevin Martin wrote:
>>
>>
>> Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>>> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 07:50:36 -0400,
>>>   Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>  
>>>> I have an RV280 radeon card, no 3d, and not expected to ever be.
>>>>     
>>>
>>> I have a 9200 which is rv280 based and it has 3d support in Fedora. 
>>> I have
>>> played Neverwinter Nights with it (though not recently) under Fedora
>>> with the native NWN client using the open source radeon driver.
>>>
>>> The card is a bit dated now, but it does have the advantage of not 
>>> needing
>>> its own fan.
>>>
>>>   
>> FWIW, I've got an x1600 running on my Acer laptop and have NEVER been 
>> able to get compiz to work correctly (either using the fglrx or the 
>> proprietary ATI drivers).  This is with F8.
>
> Yeah, but, FWIW, it may not be valid to compare laptop chipsets with 
> chipsets in PCIe/AGP cards.
>
>
I mentioned my chip primarily to highlight that the x1600 laptop chipset 
(at least in my case) didn't work with Compiz as opposed to the posting 
by Steve Repo about his x1400 working in a Dell laptop.

Kevin