Re: amd64 and video card experiences?

2004-09-02 Thread Drew Hess
On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 22:48:17 -0700, Jeffrey Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently shoved an Asus V9520 (a GeForce 5200 card) into an Athlon 64 machine running Debian. As far as I can tell, after scouring the internet for related information, this is pretty nearly the only card you can

Re: amd64 and video card experiences?

2004-09-02 Thread Drew Hess
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 10:05:43 -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would have said, Quadros run even hotter (given that they are clocked higher), but for your question: the NVIDIA binary-only drivers support all NVIDIA cards, including the Quadro series. I have never seen

Re: amd64 and video card experiences?

2004-08-23 Thread Tom Vier
On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 08:28:50PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: So, either cough up US$50 for a current-but-not-so-hot ATI card, which is supported for the most basic stuff by a free driver, or spend US$100 3d works fine on my radeon 9200. i play quake2 on it and it's fast. what features

Re: amd64 and video card experiences?

2004-08-22 Thread Raul Miller
On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 08:28:50PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: So, if you want current-generation hardware you have no choice but NVIDIA, which is available now and works. Not exactly. Current generation X (for example X.Org) seems to run fine on current generation ATI. [Well... it

Re: amd64 and video card experiences?

2004-08-22 Thread Cameron Patrick
Raul Miller wrote: Not exactly. Current generation X (for example X.Org) seems to run fine on current generation ATI. [Well... it runs fine on 9600 and 9800 -- I'm only presuming it runs fine on X800.] It's the 3d acceleration which is not yet supported on amd64 for ATI. If you don't

Re: amd64 and video card experiences?

2004-08-22 Thread Jeffrey Baker
On Aug 21, 2004, at 7:28 PM, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 12:01:39AM +0100, Hugo Mills wrote: I have an ATi Radeon 9600 Pro. It works (in the sense that I can get X running acceptably). 2D works; 3D is unsupported. There are no 64-bit capable drivers for the 3D parts of

Re: amd64 and video card experiences?

2004-08-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 22:48 -0700, Jeffrey Baker wrote: On Aug 21, 2004, at 7:28 PM, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 12:01:39AM +0100, Hugo Mills wrote: [snip] I do have to wonder why they continue to support Red Hat so strongly. Of all the Linux users I know, and

Re: amd64 and video card experiences?

2004-08-22 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 01:29:25AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 08:28:50PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: So, if you want current-generation hardware you have no choice but NVIDIA, which is available now and works. Not exactly. Current generation X (for

Re: amd64 and video card experiences?

2004-08-22 Thread Kyuu Eturautti
On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 08:28:50PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: So, if you want current-generation hardware you have no choice but NVIDIA, which is available now and works. Not exactly. Current generation X (for example X.Org) seems to run fine on current generation ATI. [Well...

Re: amd64 and video card experiences?

2004-08-22 Thread Hylke van der Schaaf
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 18:42:21 +0200 Thomas Habets [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once upon a midnight dreary, Marcelo E. Magallon pondered, weak and weary: If you want a 2D accelerator, find yourself a US$5 PCI card. There is a problem with that actually. The cheap cards tend to suck ass

Re: amd64 and video card experiences?

2004-08-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 09:55 -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 16:38 +0300, Kyuu Eturautti wrote: On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 08:28:50PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: [snip] Probably if you want a cheap card with *all* features supported in open source drivers, you should

Re: amd64 and video card experiences?

2004-08-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 07:11 -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 01:29:25AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 08:28:50PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: [snip] Which is what I was trying to say. With 100+ million transistors, 3d acceleration

Re: amd64 and video card experiences?

2004-08-16 Thread Dennis Dryden
On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 10:29, Thomas J. Zeeman wrote: [snip] I am mostly looking at an ATI 9200 card, but I would not mind about hearing experiences with 9600 series or nVidias 5200/5900XT series. The ATI Radeon 9600(rv350?) is not supported by ati on 64bit machines. I haven't tryed a dri

Re: amd64 and video card experiences?

2004-08-16 Thread Philipp Frauenfelder
Dear Thomas On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 11:00:51AM +0100, Dennis Dryden wrote: On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 10:29, Thomas J. Zeeman wrote: [snip] I am mostly looking at an ATI 9200 card, but I would not mind about hearing experiences with 9600 series or nVidias 5200/5900XT series. The ATI Radeon

Re: amd64 and video card experiences?

2004-08-16 Thread Levi Bard
I am mostly looking at an ATI 9200 card, but I would not mind about hearing experiences with 9600 series or nVidias 5200/5900XT series. I have an nvidia fx 5600, and it works great with nvidia's binary drivers. No experience with the free nv driver.

Re: amd64 and video card experiences?

2004-08-16 Thread Thomas Habets
Once upon a midnight dreary, Thomas J. Zeeman pondered, weak and weary: I am mostly looking at an ATI 9200 card, but I would not mind about hearing experiences with 9600 series or nVidias 5200/5900XT series. While not 9[26]00, 9550 works fine for me. 2D only. The ATI Proprietary Linux driver

amd64 and video card experiences?

2004-08-15 Thread Thomas J. Zeeman
Hi, Ever since I got close to the stage where I wanted to upgrade my Matrox P650 with a Sledgehammer (pun intended) I am looking for experiences by others with ATI or nVidia cards, especially with the OSS-drivers (especially since ATI has stil not delivered an AMD64-enabled Linux-driver).

Re: amd64 and video card experiences?

2004-08-15 Thread Hugo Mills
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 11:29:36AM +0200, Thomas J. Zeeman wrote: Hi, Ever since I got close to the stage where I wanted to upgrade my Matrox P650 with a Sledgehammer (pun intended) I am looking for experiences by others with ATI or nVidia cards, especially with the OSS-drivers (especially