Which ATI graphics card shall I choose for fedora/rhel

[Steve Repo]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
>

I have an x1400 on my Dell laptop, I have compiz running just fine
with ati and radeonhd drivers.

Steve