ATI Radeon : what works on Ubuntu ?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Friday, 24 February 2006 07:49, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> 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

fwiw, I have a 9200SE myself with an nForce2 motherboard chipset, and 
I use the radeon driver

It's a nice enough card, but I never managed to get 3D working cleanly 
on any distro. But I'm not into games and such so I didn't try too 
hard and eventually gave it up.

What I do like about this card is that it has VGA and DVI outputs so I 
can run two big monitors at 1792x1344 each with Xinerama. A last note 
on the DVI output - it's standard VGA analog wired to the DVI pins 
only, none of the fancy DVI digital features are implemented

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Alan McKinnon
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