GhePeU wrote:

> And, secondly, do
> AIGLX or XGL work on such cards?
>   

The r300 driver works very well with XGL. I have an X700 mobility, and
XGL works *beautifully*. Just recently, I've started to get good results
( ie no hard lockups ) with AIGLX - but with the new 'beryl' window
manager, which is Quinnstorm's fork of compiz. As Roland pointed out,
with only a 64 bit bus you're not going to get astounding performance,
so you might see some issues with heavy use of compiz effects, but then
again I don't think it will be all that bad. As a point of comparison,
I've been using compiz with AIGLX on an integrated Intel chip at work (
in i845G ). It has no RAM of it's own, and can only see 'up to' 8MB of
system RAM! It works fine with AIGLX - it's actually quite impressive.
It's quite *unimpressive* with XGL - painfully slow. According this this
page:
http://www.sharkyextreme.com/hardware/motherboards/article.php/10703_1141511__3
the i845G has a 64-bit memory bus ( if I'm reading it correctly ). So
I'd say at least for compiz ( or beryl ) on AIGLX, your chosen Radeon
should be sufficient.

Also, avoid the Radeon Xpress cards like the plague. The memory
controller is not supported with the open-source r300 driver, and ATI's
proprietary driver locks hard when starting XGL.

Dan

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