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does anyone have tested them for a longer time? are they stable? so is it
safe to put them on a linux workstation?

my private hesitation is (I am just about to buy a new workstation) if to
buy a 7500 (dri opensource support) or go for newer card with ATI native
drivers...

thank you for any reply and help
michal frackowiak

Am Fri, 06 Dec 2002 schrieb Michal Frackowiak in comp.os.linux.hardware:

Quote:> does anyone have tested them for a longer time? are they stable? so is it
> safe to put them on a linux workstation?

> my private hesitation is (I am just about to buy a new workstation) if to
> buy a 7500 (dri opensource support) or go for newer card with ATI native
> drivers...

At least for the ATI-driver i can say that it is stable in my oppinion.
I use them with a Radeon8500. No problems with rh7.2 XFree 4.2.
i have not tested the new version of the driver (with XV support and
texture compression) so i can't say anything about that.

Mario

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I'm running the 2.5.1 release on Slackware 9.0b with a Radeon 9000, and no
problems so far.....

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Pete

I am using a ati radeon 7500 card and no problems.  
Smitty

     I would recommend another video card!  You can get better performance
that way.  Radeon 8500 cards don't cost much more than 7500 cards anymore,
and they'll give better performance than either a 7500 or a 9000/9000 Pro.  
GeForce 3 Ti200 cards aren't too pricey either...

                                                            Marcus

Does the TV-Out on the ATI cards work now on Linux with these new
drivers?

nomen

You said:
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     I would recommend another video card!  You can get better performance
that way.  Radeon 8500 cards don't cost much more than 7500 cards anymore,
and they'll give better performance than either a 7500 or a 9000/9000 Pro.
GeForce 3 Ti200 cards aren't too pricey either...

                                                            Marcus

     Probably not.  It looks like ATI is "considering" adding this feature
to their binary drivers.  There is a program which _might_ enable tv-out on
a newer ATI card, but I wouldn't bet on it:

http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/users/lennart/projects/atitvout/

     nVidia cards do have working tv-out on Linux.

                                                            Marcus

Hmm...well, I'm wanting to do a home made PVR project, but, only have
a P3 600Mhz. I was wanting to use the ATI 8500 DV with the
on board video compression chip....I considered using a nVidia card,
but, don't find any with hardware compression....and I don't think my
box is fast enough to do software compression on the fly....

Are there any nVidia cards out there that can do hardware compression
and I've missed them?

TIA,

nomen

You Said:
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Quote:> Does the TV-Out on the ATI cards work now on Linux with these new
> drivers?

> nomen

     Probably not.  It looks like ATI is "considering" adding this feature
to their binary drivers.  There is a program which _might_ enable tv-out on
a newer ATI card, but I wouldn't bet on it:

http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/users/lennart/projects/atitvout/

     nVidia cards do have working tv-out on Linux.

                                                            Marcus