ATI (Chipped) Graphic Card Pre-Purchase Advise?

[Frank Murphy]

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=404841&view=detailed#ProductTabs

Am thinking of his for my graphics\rendering box.
How would this work in with F11+ with re. driver support.

Frank

[Kevin Kofler]

Frank Murphy wrote:
> http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=404841&view=detailed#ProductTabs
>
> Am thinking of his for my graphics\rendering box.
> How would this work in with F11+ with re. driver support.

Only unaccelerated 2D. It's a Radeon HD, those are not supported by the DRI
hardware acceleration framework yet.

http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon

Kevin Kofler

[Florian Sievert]

Hi,
> http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=404841&view=detailed#ProductTabs
>
> Am thinking of his for my graphics\rendering box.
> How would this work in with F11+ with re. driver support.

There is not a clear answer to it: Maybe. I am running a hd4850 here and
it is possible to get it running with accelerated 2d (EXA) with latest
trunks and lots of fiddling. 3D ist currently an absolute no go and I
won't expect to get it in shape for F11 (maybe during live time). The
documentation is released and there are good changes that they might be
supported as well as the R500. However, you should defenitly expect that
it might take some months or years. Nobody currently is giving any
trustful roadmap for having full DRI support on these cards... there is
only hope ;)

Best regards,
Florian

[Suvayu Ali]

2009/2/24 Frank Murphy :
> http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=404841&view=detailed#ProductTabs
>
> Am thinking of his for my graphics\rendering box.
> How would this work in with F11+ with re. driver support.

I use a HD4870 1GB with fglrx drivers packaged by rpmfusion. I don't
use compiz or desktop effects, but I did turn on desktop effect a few
times (to just check or show off to windowze friends). It worked fine
enough. I also play some first person shooter games like Enemy
Territory, Nexuiz or OpenArena with no problems. However I have been
unable to run the game I bought this card for, Enemy Territory: Quake
Wars.

The proprietary drivers can at times be very buggy but if you get it
to work, the cards are worth it. I say that as almost nothing can beat
them in performance on my windows install (I dual boot F10 x86_64 & XP
x64). I am hoping the fglrx drivers will catch up to their windows
counter parts in the coming months. I say this because I got a HD4850
to work almost flawlessly on Ubuntu Hardy Heron at work. Good luck.