From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H4vAa-0007OQ-TD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:20:21 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0B8Ip1v010396; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:18:51 GMT Received: from smtp4.clear.net.nz (smtp4.clear.net.nz [203.97.37.64]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0B8EaIR002119 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:14:38 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.11] (121-72-65-13.dsl.telstraclear.net [121.72.65.13]) by smtp4.clear.net.nz (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0JBP002M92W6PA30@smtp4.clear.net.nz> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:14:31 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:14:30 +1300 From: Mark Kirkwood Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Radeon 9550 In-reply-to: <45A46BEB.3030702@paradise.net.nz> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <45A5F1E6.7060503@paradise.net.nz> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <45A45BD6.1020905@verizon.net> <45A46BEB.3030702@paradise.net.nz> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061227) X-Archives-Salt: 79dd9225-1a59-4c23-bd14-8339af2366da X-Archives-Hash: 3160187bee10e07ca7ab4a95c0b36250 Mark Kirkwood wrote: > > I'm very interested as I've been using a 9550 with HW accel enabled + > Xorg (6.9) with the radeon driver in FreeBSD 6 without any problems at > all. This encourages me to think they should work in Gentoo as > well...(crosses fingers) as I'm in the process of building my mother a > machine running Gentoo and have one of these (a 9200) lying around and > am intending to use it.... > I temporarily made my box with the Radeon 9550 run Gentoo (installed on a space disk) to try this out. It seems hardware acceleration works and is stable, 'tho not terribly fast for 3D (2200 FPS with glxgears), but very snappy for 2D (which is all I really use...). Cheers Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list