Graphics nightmare

Graphics nightmare

Posted Nov 16, 2006 15:56 UTC (Thu) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: Graphics nightmare by rakoenig
Parent article: Resisting the binary blob

> ATI has some free drivers for older cards, but they won't fit into todays systems that come with PCIe slots instead of AGP.

You can buy new R9250 (r200) cards in both PCI and AGP.
You can buy new X300 (r400 aka r300) in PCI, AGP, and PCIe.

Granted, their current-gen X1k stuff has zero opensource support, but even those are available in both PCI and AGP form factors too.

> I'd love to run a machine with free software only, but I wouldn't like a monopoly of just one vendor. So I have to go with proprietary code even if its a pain in the ass. Sad, but there is too little market share of Linux overall to put pressure on the vendors.

My laptop has only free drivers on it, including for the Radeon board. It does everything I need it to do.

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