Which ATI graphics card shall I choose for fedora/rhel

[Dan Track]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:24:47AM +0100, Dan Track wrote:
>> Thanks for that. My supplier said he can't get that card but he said
>> he can get the Saphirre Radeon x1650 Pro 512MB DDR2 AGP VGA DVI TV,
>> would you know if that's supported and would work well with fedora 9
>> and compiz?
>
> That's an R500 chipset. It'll work in 2d now, and 3D (and with compiz) in
> the future. If you need 3D now, you need a much older card -- R200 or R300
> chipset. Look at the man page for "radeon" for product name-to-chipset
> matching.
>

Great thanks for that. From what you said does that mean I can't run
compiz on fedora 9?

Thanks
Dan