A Video Card Upgrade HOWTO (Linux Journal)

A Video Card Upgrade HOWTO (Linux Journal)

Posted Sep 3, 2005 14:11 UTC (Sat) by anton (subscriber, #25547)
In reply to: A Video Card Upgrade HOWTO (Linux Journal) by dark
Parent article: A Video Card Upgrade HOWTO (Linux Journal)

>The 9000/9200 seem to be the end of the line for freely supported cards

The R2xx line (8500/9100/9000/9200/9250) is the only one with free 3D
drivers, but there are free 2D drivers for the R3xx line. I am
happily using an RV350 (Radeon 9600) with free drivers.

If you are interested in 3D performance and want to buy a 9250 or 9200
for that, make sure that you get one with a 128-bit memory interface
(a lot of 64-bit cards are now sold as 9250 (without the SE label)).

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