[gentoo-user] Support of Radeon graphics cards

[gentoo-user] Support of Radeon graphics cards

["Maximilian Bräutigam"]

Hi all,

i would like to buy a new computer, but i need (of course) to use gentoo. furthermore i would buy a Radeon HD 4850 or Radeon HD 4870. How are these cards supported by gentoo and does everything work fine according to ati-drivers ebuild? i need the 3d support due to some molecular modeling software.

my current graphics card is a nvidia and is well supported.
please, share your experiences.

thank you very much in advance.

kind regards,
der Max
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Re: [gentoo-user] Support of Radeon graphics cards

[Daniel Troeder]

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On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 11:02 +0200, "Maximilian Bräutigam" wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> i would like to buy a new computer, but i need (of course) to use gentoo. furthermore i would buy a Radeon HD 4850 or Radeon HD 4870. How are these cards supported by gentoo and does everything work fine according to ati-drivers ebuild? i need the 3d support due to some molecular modeling software.
> 
> my current graphics card is a nvidia and is well supported.
> please, share your experiences.
> 
> thank you very much in advance.
> 
> kind regards,
> der Max
According to ATI (AMD)
https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/catalyst_94_linux.pdf
these grafics cards are supported by their closed source drivers. You'll
need these for proper 3D.

Gentoo has support for them in "x11-drivers/ati-drivers".
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml

I have a Radeon HD 3400 (mobility) and the driver works very well. 3D is
good, 2D is not half as good as the OSS drivers (radeon and radeonhd),
but works too.

In my case suspend to ram and to disk (using tuxonice) both work well on
the primary display, on the secondary display I get wrong colors after
resume.

It's safe to say: Gentoo has proper ATI-support :)

Bye,
Daniel

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