[plug] Radeon Graphics cards

[laurie anderson]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:21:31 +0800
Trevor Phillips <T.Phillips at murdoch.edu.au> wrote:

> On Friday 16 January 2004 14:55, laurie anderson wrote:
> >  Hi one & all,
> >
> >  What experience have pluggers had with Radeon Graphics cards in particular
> > a 128MB Radeon 9200se to run with Debian.
> 
> I've recently got a Radeon 9600XT. I ummed & aaahed a lot before getting it, 
> due to the shonky linux support I'd heard about in the past.
> 
> Ironically, I'm having more problems with it under Windows XP than Linux! But 
> then again, I'm playing 3d games under XP. Under Linux I use it for normal 
> desktop stuff, as well as playing video, with TV Out.
> 
> My system is Debian-based (testing now, with bits of unstable), and I'm using 
> the official ATI linux drivers, which installed with minimal hassles.
> 
> Overall I'm very happy with the card, and I've not had any problems under 
> Linux yet, although the official ATI drivers are still very immature. They 
> are improving gradually, though.
> 
> One thing I HAVE learned though is that Celerons suck. ^_^ The box was 
> originally JUST a media box, so I got the cheapest CPU I could; a Celeron 
> 2.2GHz (yes, I would've gone with Athlon/Duron, but they wouldn't exactly fit 
> in the MoBo I had to work with). Well, the latest games really tax the poor 
> CPU (and some of the video playback under Linux stresses it too). I'm 
> wondering how much of a performance boost I'd get upgrading to the cheapest 
> P4 I can find...
> 
> So, overall, no I don't have any experience with 9200se's per se, but in 
> general, ATI Radeon linux support is much better than it used to be, and is 
> improving steadily. Unless you NEED UT2k3 under Linux with extreme 
> frame-rates (which I'm guessing isn't a priority if you have a 9200), then it 
> should be fine.
> 
> The best forum I've found for Linux/ATI stuff is:
>    http://www.rage3d.com/board/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=61
> 
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  Trevor,
  Many thanks, each thought helps.

  Laurie