German Gomez Garcia wrote: > Hello, I have some money to spend (finally!!!) so I'm thinking > of replacing my old G400MAX for a new card, as I prefer open source, I > have to choose between ATI and Matrox, and the optios (for me) are > the new Parhelia 512 or the AIW Radeon 8500 DV, I'll buy whatever card > works better under Linux, as far as I know somebody is working in 3D for > the 8500 even TCL!!, and the Gatos project has good quality video in/out > for the AIW DV. The parhelia is quite misterious, but I could wait two > or three months if the drivers would be good enough. >
Just let me give you a short overview about the current status of the driver support: Radeon8500: 2D is supported, including working XVideo provided by the Gatos-project, 3D is supported by the closed-source FireGL-drivers by ATi. The FireGL-drivers do not support XV, so you'll have to choose wether to use 3D- or video acceleration. It's not a problem running the free/Gatos server and the FireGL server at the same time, however, so it's not too bad, just a bit uncomfortable. The development of an open-source driver for the 8500 is funded by the weather channel, and we will hopefully see working drivers by the end of the year. Parhelia: Sorry, I don't know if Matrox is planning to support the card in XF86. Currently they don't even have a driver for win9x, so it will probably be a while. But I may be completely wrong here. I'd also keep in mind the costs of both cards: You can get a 8500(LE) for less than half of what the Parhelia costs. I hope this helps a bit Stefan > I would like to know if anybody from Matrox contacted developers > here, well, in fact, I would like to know if I should wait for the > parhelia linux drivers or go for the AIW. What do you think?? > > Regards, > > - german > ------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
