Radeon Card Supported by Fedora

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Mark wrote:

> On February 19, 2004 01:09 pm, Jon Shorie wrote:
> > I have access to several Radeon Cards.   What I am wondering is which of
> > the following would be the best to use with Fedora's drivers.  Here is what
> > I have access to:  Radeon 7000, Radeon 7500, Radeon 9200, Radeon IGP 320.
> >
> 
> I would use the Radeon 9200 over the rest. (I don't know what the IGP 320 is 
> exactly. Is that an onboard chipset?) Either way the 9200 is the generation 
> newer than the 7500 and should be supported by both the ATI Firegl drivers 
> and the opensource drivers. I have a 9100 that does well with the opensource 
> DRI drivers but doesn't seem to handle the UT2004 demo.

the radeon 8500 and 9100 are r200 the 8500 has slightly faster ram. the 
radeon 9000 and 9200 are r250 the fastest of the r250's is actually the 
9000pro the slowest is the 9200se... 
  
> > I do not play first person shooter games, but do enjoy some gaming on my
> > Fedora Box.  3d capability is not a primary concern at this time. 
> > Stability and 2d speed and quality is.
> 
> The DRI drivers are probably all you need. If you had a 9500 or greater then 

dri doesn't current support any of the r3xx based chipsets and the igp320 
is despits it's name apparently derived from the r2xx chipset. so the 
newer radeons are sorta off limits to people who want an opensource 
driver.

> you may want the FireGL but upto 9200 will run well with DRI drivers with 3D 
> support.

yup.

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