Hi,
I'm about to buy new video card, and was looking at ATI PCI-E Radeon X550. However, I don't see that particular chipset mentioned anywhere in docs. The X300 is there, as well as X600 and X800. Does anybody have Radeon X550 card running under CentOS 4? With 3D acceleration?
Thanks, Aleksandar Milivojevic
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Aleksandar Milivojevic alex@milivojevic.org wrote:
Hi, I'm about to buy new video card, and was looking at ATI PCI-E Radeon X550. However, I don't see that particular chipset mentioned anywhere in docs. The X300 is there, as well as X600 and X800. Does anybody have Radeon X550 card running under CentOS 4? With 3D acceleration?
Bang/Buck under Linux is nVidia. Especially the GeForce 6200 for $50 these days (just get a 256MB TC version which has 64MB of RAM). Otherwise the 6600 and 6600GT (GDDR3) are $100+ with 128-256MB.
nVidia's Standardware drivers are more stable than the ATI Standardware drivers. There are _no_ DRI/GLX drivers for either.
Quoting "Bryan J. Smith" b.j.smith@ieee.org:
Bang/Buck under Linux is nVidia. Especially the GeForce 6200 for $50 these days (just get a 256MB TC version which has 64MB of RAM). Otherwise the 6600 and 6600GT (GDDR3) are $100+ with 128-256MB.
nVidia's Standardware drivers are more stable than the ATI Standardware drivers. There are _no_ DRI/GLX drivers for either.
Thanks for the answers. I think I'll go with either cheap X300 or 6200 cards, forget about 3D, and save myself couple of $ ;-)
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Aleksandar Milivojevic alex@milivojevic.org wrote:
Thanks for the answers. I think I'll go with either cheap X300 or 6200 cards, forget about 3D, and save myself couple of $ ;-)
If you're not interested in 3D, another option that should be compatible with ALL CentOS releases (3 and 4) using the MIT 2D drivers is the GeForce PCX 5300. It's essentially a GeForce FX 5200 (NV34) -- which was supported in the very first Xorg release, as well as the last XFree86 release before it's adoption by Red Hat.
Most of the affordable GeForce FX (NV3x) solutions are absolutely attrocious at 3D compared to even the older GeForce4 Ti (NV25/28) series. Even though it's an earlier generation with less feature support, the NV25/28 is often able to best NV31/34 with newer features turned on. Probably the biggest bastard is the GeForce FX 5700"LE" which has its clock cut by 45% over the "full" 5700 and it shows, losing to the "old" GeForce4 Ti4200/4800 in many benchmarks.
But for 2D, the GeForce PCX 5300 (PCIe) / FX 5200 (AGP) are widely supported.
I don't have the 550, but I do have the X600, and you must install the ATI proprietary drivers. They do support hardware 3-D, but nothing much else besides dual monitors and TV out. Really a big waste of an expensive card for what I'm doing. You also will have problems during install if you try to use the 550. Use a common card, then drop the 550 in after installing the drivers.
Sam
Sam Drinkard sam@wa4phy.net wrote:
I don't have the 550, but I do have the X600, and you must install the ATI proprietary drivers.
Yep. I've also found that nVidia has been better about supporting the 2D-only MIT drivers on newer cards before ATI, although ATI _has_ been better in the last Xorg release (they almost matched nVidia on cards supported by recent release date).
They do support hardware 3-D, but nothing much else besides dual monitors and TV out. Really a big waste of an expensive card for what I'm doing. You also will have problems during install if you try to use the 550.
Yeah, that's the Xorg drivers you're relying on.
Although I believe the nVidia 6200-6600 (NV43-44) aren't fully supported by the RHEL/CentOS 4 installer, and only the 6800 (NV40), although they will probably "work okay." I.e., you won't need to use the VESA installer.
The newer Xorg release from a few months adds newer NV4x support, and even some new G70 support. But that's only for 2D.
Use a common card, then drop the 550 in after installing the drivers.
The VESA installer should work, unless ATI is no longer supporting VESA BIOS Extentions (VBE) 2.0+. I haven't personally checked if the new nVidia GeForce 7800 (G70) series does, but I know all of the GeForce 6200/6600/6800 (NV4x) do.
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