From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MgsOV-0008B6-B0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:44:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C6814E07B7; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:54:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from IMPaqm3.telefonica.net (impaqm3.telefonica.net [213.4.129.18]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10C35E07B7 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:54:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from IMPmailhost5.adm.correo ([10.20.102.126]) by IMPaqm3.telefonica.net with bizsmtp id Zkip1c02w2jdgqJ3Pku3Qm; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:54:03 +0200 Received: from jesgue.homelinux.org ([78.136.66.163]) by IMPmailhost5.adm.correo with BIZ IMP id Zku21c0023XLmEe1lku2S3; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:54:03 +0200 X-TE-authinfo: authemail="i92guboj.terra.es" |auth_email="i92guboj@terra.es" X-TE-AcuTerraCos: auth_cuTerraCos="cosuitera01" Received: from 192.168.0.10 (SquirrelMail authenticated user i92guboj) by jesgue.homelinux.org with HTTP; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:54:00 +0200 Message-ID: <3abcdedc95e98dbf85a5fde32baa15f7.squirrel@jesgue.homelinux.org> In-Reply-To: References: <200908250133.23329.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <200908261813.52044.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <652883.3253.qm@web65401.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> <58965d8a0908270849g600521d9j41ac0d1b7ddf5c04@mail.gmail.com> <4A96AE68.6010601@darkmetatron.de> <58965d8a0908270927p6b7c6767x4d76655b31927b25@mail.gmail.com> <164dcfaefb59248516d8b5d7cf75d25a.squirrel@jesgue.homelinux.org> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:54:00 +0200 Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Heads-up: KDEers: Particularly kde3-ers, From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jes=FAs_Guerrero?= To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.5.2 [SVN] Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 7acd7132-a9f1-46e3-84ec-70cd20c1cc44 X-Archives-Hash: fd00a8bcaba36ccc130de8c50485d33b > Well, the nVidia might be nice, but I asked specifically for Radeon (th= o > other well freedomware driver supported or headed that way card would w= ork) > as well as AGP, because Radeon is AFAIK the best freedomware supported > hardware available. > > But... (vv) I think that yes, along with intel. Couldn't tell you what's better supported. Expect trouble with r6xx based cards *right now*, though. 3d doesn't work, at least not officially. Work is being done, but not quite ready for production. If you need 3d acceleration with the open driver, then use an older card, r5xx based. >> You can also see an ati radeon 2400 there, I own one however I can't >> say I am really happy with it. But that's another story and I don't wa= nt >> to spoil the thread more than it already is. > > hd2400, right? I'll have to take a look, now that I know it's availabl= e. > That's r6xx I believe, and while freedomware support is still > a bit rough, come about the end of the year or early next, it should be > coming right into its own. I own a 2400 and I can tell you it's a pain to get radeon working with it. Not even 2d works ok (no dri, which means not even 2d acceleration, very slow, and NO XVIDEO, which is a major flaw). For some others it seems to work ok. It doesn't seem to work too well with multihead, maybe my problems come because of that, I don't really know. As you say, the radeon/radeonhd driveris coming, slowly, but eventually it will catch up, however, *right now*, if you plan to use OSS drivers only, you are better with older hardware. They might work on some months, but it could very well take more time, it just depends on how the thing develops. --=20 Jes=FAs Guerrero