On 12/27/06, Brian St. Pierre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi - > > I'm assembling a new pc and have gotten bogged down on video card choices. > Can someone here recommend a card? > > * under US$80 > * PCI Express -- motherboard is ASUS M2N-E which has PCIE > * take advantage of hw 3d acceleration (optional? willing to wait a bit for > an open driver) > > The PC will use an AMD Athlon 64 X2. My 3d needs are fairly light, I'm not a > gamer, just doing occasional 3d modeling. (And this will blow away my current > PC even if all 3d is done in software.) > > I was looking at Nvidia cards, but ATI Radeon seems to be *much* better > supported. In particular, it's hard for me to figure out which cards use > which chipsets. Some of the models now appearing at retailers don't show up > on the Radeon page on the DRI wiki. (So I assume they have no hw acceleration > support.) And AMD/ATI's website doesn't really dive into specifics, unless > I'm missing something. > > Any pointers or experiences with specific cards are appreciated. > > Thanks! >
ATI card are supported up to X850, maybe X1050 or somethings like that is supported too. Other X1300 or X1600 or above are not supported at the moment and i can't predict when they might be. For nvidia card take a look at nouveau.freedesktop.org i think they got a list there. best, Jerome Glisse ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
