Re: ATI boards [was Re: Linux 2.4 future]

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
> Harald Arnesen wrote:
>
> > I second that. I have an ATI Radeon 9200, and I can play Tuxracer,
> > America's Army (BOO!), and any other 3D-game without any problem.
>
> Torvalds was talking about R200 chip. Those boards are 8500, and
> 9100/8500 LE. IMO they are the best for FOSS.

Actually, the whole R2x0 family seems to be largely supported by the DRI
drivers.

The newer cards just need a recent enough DRI server to know about them,
but they should otherwise be ok.

It's the R300-based cards (ATI 9800 & friends) that apparently don't get
any open-source 3D acceleration right now.

(But hey, I may be wrong - I follow the DRI stuff only sporadically).

			Linus
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/