ATI Radeon vs nVidia 3D accelleration

Sat Feb 13 12:56:57 UTC 2010

On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 04:46:36 -0800,
  Don Quixote de la Mancha <quixote at dulcineatech.com> wrote:
> 
> Someone has pointed out to me where I need to go to download and build
> the source that might enable 3D accelleration on my ($$$) ATI Radeon
> 4870HD card.  I plan to give that a try next.

If you are using F12 you should be able to install
mesa-dri-drivers-experimental and get 3d support for that card with
the radeon driver (from xorg-x11-drv-ati).