Which ATI graphics card shall I choose for fedora/rhel

Kevin Martin kevintm at ameritech.net
Wed Aug 20 14:55:48 UTC 2008



Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 07:50:36 -0400,
>   Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> I have an RV280 radeon card, no 3d, and not expected to ever be.
>>     
>
> I have a 9200 which is rv280 based and it has 3d support in Fedora. I have
> played Neverwinter Nights with it (though not recently) under Fedora
> with the native NWN client using the open source radeon driver.
>
> The card is a bit dated now, but it does have the advantage of not needing
> its own fan.
>
>   
FWIW, I've got an x1600 running on my Acer laptop and have NEVER been 
able to get compiz to work correctly (either using the fglrx or the 
proprietary ATI drivers).  This is with F8.

Kevin




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