On 13 June 2011 18:20, Federico Mena Quintero <feder...@gnome.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 23:27 -0400, Jeff Fortin wrote: > > > I'm looking for recommendations for graphic cards that > > - Can run GNOME Shell in a fluid manner > > - Are PCI (not PCI express or AGP) > > - Are dirt cheap/easy to find > > Some data points: > > I have two machines with old Radeon cards, both with the radeonhd > driver. > > R200, straight PCI, is unusable. > > R300, laptop built-in, is somewhat usable. > > I haven't tried the radeon driver, just radeonhd - things may be > different with it. > > Finding that R200 was hard about two years ago, and actually more > expensive than an AGP card. These days it may be cheaper to find a used > machine that can do PCI/E or AGP, than to find a straight PCI video card > that is fast enough. > > RadeonHD was never meant for that generation of cards (it only supports R500+) and has since been obsoleted by the Radeon driver in all features.
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