Which ATI graphics card shall I choose for fedora/rhel

[Ed Greshko]

Kevin Martin wrote:
> 
> 
> Ed Greshko wrote:
>> Kevin Martin wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Yeah, but, FWIW, it may not be valid to compare laptop chipsets with 
>> chipsets in PCIe/AGP cards.
>>
>>
> I mentioned my chip primarily to highlight that the x1600 laptop chipset 
> (at least in my case) didn't work with Compiz as opposed to the posting 
> by Steve Repo about his x1400 working in a Dell laptop.

Understand...  Just didn't want to confuse the OP looking for a card for his 
desktop.