ATI Radeon : what works on Ubuntu ?

[ulrich steffens]

Am Freitag, den 24.02.2006, 06:49 +0100 schrieb Vincent Trouilliez:
> Hi gang,
> 
> I intend to buy an old-ish ATI Radeon (generic) card, and would like
> your experiences/knowledge on what works on Ubuntu.
> 
> I have selected 4 models, according to my budget, objectives, and what
> my supplier has in stock. In order of price :
> 
> 1) Radeon 7000 32MB
> 2) Radeon 7000 64MB
> 3) Radeon 9200SE 128MB
> 4) Radeon 9250 128MB DDR 64 bit
> 
> I searched in Synaptic (I am on Dapper) for "radeon", and from what I
> see, the situation is:
> 
> - a binary/proprietary driver that handles the 9200 and 9250 but not the
> 7000
> - an open source Xorg driver that works with any Radeon model, and which
> does support 3D H/W acceleration
> [snip]

i would go for a 9250, it has at least *some* 3-D performance :)

on the driver side: i use fglrx (ati binary) with a 9500 and havent had
problems so far or to say not more than with other cards. the ati cards
also have a nice 2d picture.

for the agp stuff:
http://www.ati.com/products/radeon9200/radeon9200/specs.html
it says:
System Requirements
              * Intel® Pentium® 4/III/II/Celeron™, AMD®
                K6/Duron™/Athlon®/Athlon XP® or compatible with AGP 2X
                (3.3V), 4X (1.5V), 8X (0.8v) or Universal AGP 3.0 bus
                configuration (2X/4X/8X) or PCI bus
              * 
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