[NTLUG:Discuss] [Fwd: [nlug] Fedora Core 2 ISO's] -- "radeon" driver supports RV280

[Steve Baker]

Bryan J. Smith wrote:

> Or were you talking 3D?  If so, I know ATI has _dropped_ support
> for Freedomware driver development with the R300 series, and I
> was pretty sure the latter R200-series GPUs were not supported.
> 
> If you mean ATI's binary-only drivers, I have not used them.
> So I can't advise you there.

It's certainly true that the freeware ATI drivers are FAR behind
the times and don't work at all well on recent ATI hardware - don't
even consider using them for 3D work.

The ATI binary-only OpenGL drivers (get them from the ATI web site)
are kinda patchy (both under Windows AND Linux) - in the course of
using them I've found quite a few bugs.

I wouldn't recommend buying an ATI card (get nVidia) - but if you
already have one, it should work under Linux with the closed-source
drivers from the ATI site and it'll be about as error-prone as it
is under Windows.

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