Fedora and a Radeon Mobility 7500

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, James Drabb wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 13:53, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> > The radeon mobility m7 works fine with xf86 4.3  including opengl and 
> > xvideo... what motivated you to use anything else...
> > 
> > joelja
> 
> There are issues with the open source DRM driver as my post pointed
> out.

with unreal engine based games? s3 texture compression may be the 
culprit...

>  I have ran into several OpenGL based games that don't work on my
> radeon mobility m7 using the open source drivers while the same games
> work great on my Nvidia card using NVidia's drivers.

> Other then the
> handful of games, the open source radeon driver does work well.

and it actually works with apm which I find mandatory on a laptop, unlike 
the propetary ati or nvidia drivers which will not survive a suspend.

> Jim Drabb
> 

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