[oclug] ATI Radeon

[Collin McCrank]

Johnathan Hicks wrote:

> Rod Giffin wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 12:05, Collin McCrank wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I just learned that the Radeon 7500 has been discontinued.  I need 
>>> an ATI card that will work with a stock RH 7.3-9 installation.  Has 
>>> anyone had any good luck with any of the other Radeon cards?
>>
>>
>>
>> ATI supports Linux with proprietary binaries of their drivers. 
>> http://mirror.ati.com/support/driver.html  Check the driver exists, then
>> get the card.  As far as I can tell, there are no issues, and I've got 5
>> various Radeon cards here, including one Radeon Mobility. (CAVEAT: I'm
>> using Mandrake 9.1) 
>
>
> Stock XFree86 4.3.0 supports Radeons up to 9700.

Really?  With 3D acceleration?  That's exactly what we need.  Our 
software relies heavily on OpenGL and we need a good card that will do this.