Which ATI graphics card shall I choose for fedora/rhel

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Wed Aug 20 13:40:47 UTC 2008


On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 07:50:36AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >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.
> I have an RV280 radeon card, no 3d, and not expected to ever be.

Yeah, it has to be specifically R200: Radeon 8500, 9100, FireGL 8800/8700.

And, uh, I think I was wrong about R300 and 3D.

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