I'm looking for the highest performance 2d/3d video card that is supported out of the box by Centos 4.2 with open source drivers. I would need for both 2d and 3d to work. No tv tuner, tv in, tv out etc. is needed.
I think my best candidate would be a 9800 series radeon. Any comments?
Thanks, Steve
ATI Radeon 9200 is the most advanced card supported by DRI drivers included in CentOS. To support r300 based cards you must recompile Xorg cvs.
Steve Bergman escribió:
I'm looking for the highest performance 2d/3d video card that is supported out of the box by Centos 4.2 with open source drivers. I would need for both 2d and 3d to work. No tv tuner, tv in, tv out etc. is needed.
I think my best candidate would be a 9800 series radeon. Any comments?
Thanks, Steve
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 16:42 -0500, Roger D Vargas wrote:
ATI Radeon 9200 is the most advanced card supported by DRI drivers included in CentOS. To support r300 based cards you must recompile Xorg cvs.
Wow. Still? Actually I just figured out that "man radeon" gets me that information.
FWIW, the highest performing Radeon supported is actually the 9100. The 9200 is supported, but the 9100 (which is really a renumbered 8500 with a tweak or two) actually outperforms the 9200.
Well... in a way, I suppose this is fortuitous, since I just happen to have a Radeon 9100 sitting in a drawer right next to me. :-)
-Steve
Well, then excuse my mistake. I dont exactly follow video cards specs, as I cant buy them and usually depends on some foreign family to obtain one for my game development experiments.
Steve Bergman escribió:
On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 16:42 -0500, Roger D Vargas wrote:
ATI Radeon 9200 is the most advanced card supported by DRI drivers included in CentOS. To support r300 based cards you must recompile Xorg cvs.
Wow. Still? Actually I just figured out that "man radeon" gets me that information.
FWIW, the highest performing Radeon supported is actually the 9100. The 9200 is supported, but the 9100 (which is really a renumbered 8500 with a tweak or two) actually outperforms the 9200.
Well... in a way, I suppose this is fortuitous, since I just happen to have a Radeon 9100 sitting in a drawer right next to me. :-)
-Steve
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
I say "damn the torpedoes" and get yourself an Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX card. 8-)
One of the kids at the office brought one in to try on some test systems I've been building (Tyan 2895 + dual Opteron 275 + 4gigs RAM). I'm not much of a gamer, but he booted one of the boxes into Windows XP and started playing Call of Duty 2. The whole office just stopped for 5-10 minutes while everyone watched. With a sufficiently fast computer/video, these shoot-em-up games are full of eye candy without affecting gameplay at all. Wow. Who woulda thought you'd need 4 opteron cores, a $400 video card, and a few gigs of RAM just to play a game with all the "fun bits" turned on. 8-) Thank goodness my daughter is still happy with her PSP....for now. 8-)
Cheers,
On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 08:28 -0500, Chris Mauritz wrote:
I say "damn the torpedoes" and get yourself an Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX card. 8-)
I'm replacing an NVidia 6800GT 8x AGP w/256MB of DDR3.
Its a good card.
But I'm tired of mucking with their proprietary drivers all the time. Especially since it is unstable at 8x on my MB, so every time I evaluate a new distro, and every time a new kernel patch is issued, I have to mess with making sure that the kernel headers are installed and the nvidia package is unpacked and knows where the kernel headers are, and go into one of the c files in their glue layer and edit it to force 4x and then manually compile and install (after agreeing, yet again, to their license agreement). All for the privilege of getting working 3D on NVidia's card.
The Radeon 9100 is an old card with only a fraction of the power of the 6800 but I'm already loving it. There are some things that money just can't buy. :-)
-Steve
On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 09:05 -0500, Roger D Vargas wrote:
Well, then excuse my mistake.
I appreciate your original response. I hope I didn't give the impression that I did not.
The "9100 is better than 9200" thing is a bit of not so widely known trivia I picked up when I researched the matter a couple of years ago. ;-)
-Steve
Yes, but being a game programmer wannabee Im supposed to know such details. But as i said, as I cant buy I usually dont waste my mind studying cards I will never have. But from now on I will make my homework and will be aware of such things.
Steve Bergman escribió:
On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 09:05 -0500, Roger D Vargas wrote:
Well, then excuse my mistake.
I appreciate your original response. I hope I didn't give the impression that I did not.
The "9100 is better than 9200" thing is a bit of not so widely known trivia I picked up when I researched the matter a couple of years ago. ;-)
-Steve
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Hello Members,
I am getting a "timeout" error when trying to update using the internet. I think that maybe it is related to my ISP download bandwidth. Is there a way to get the updates from a faster connection, like from my home PC, and make a "LAN" update disk?
Thanks, David Evennou
On 03/02/06, David Evennou (Data Masters, Inc.) de@data-masters.com wrote:
Hello Members,
I am getting a "timeout" error when trying to update using the internet. I think that maybe it is related to my ISP download bandwidth. Is there a way to get the updates from a faster connection, like from my home PC, and make a "LAN" update disk?
This has been covered a bit in the past. You can create a local Yum repositry and update from that. My suggestion from the past thread ("Best way to mirror CentOS locally", 18-Oct-2005 15:08) ...
<---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kick off an rsync from your closest fast mirror, wait for this to complete, then setup a nightly cron job to keep in sync with this mirror. Something like...
rsync -Pptrl --delete rsync://rsync.sunsite.org.uk/sites/msync.centos.org/CentOS/4/ /local_repo/CentOS/4/
Would mirror the whole CentOS 4 tree to /local_repo/CentOS/4/ on the system the sync was run on. You can then point the local yum configs to
file:/local_repo/CentOS/4/
Run a webserver/ftpserver that can access /local_repo/CentOS/4/ to make the updates available to other clients.
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And Alfred von Campe added...
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To speed things up (and to conserve disk space), you can add a --exclude=isos to the rsync command (and also --exclude="alpha" --exclude="ia64" --exclude="ppc" --exclude="s390*" --exclude="x86_64" if you only need/want the i386 stuff).
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Will.
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