Re: CT60 / CTPCI / Radeon

On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 12:49:01 -0400, Ronald J. Hall wrote:

> On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 08:23:30 -0700, Coda wrote:
>
>> Well, the ATI drivers are proprietary and AFAIK , the NVIDIA drivers
>> that exist for linux are unsupported but they are provided by NVIDIA.
>
> Depends on your view of "unsupported". :-) Nvidia releases new updates
> for their cards on a very regular basis, and are much easier to work with
> than ATIs stuff, at this point, going by the messages I read in the
> Mandriva mailing lists. Just wish they would open source their stuff. Sure
> would make a lot of people happy. :-)
>

This is a hugely different animal! NVidia releases binary drivers for x86
and x86_64! Guess what you use if you're on PPC mac? Unaccelerated FB
drivers! That's not good at all. There's actually marginal open source
ATI drivers out there. For our platform, ATI is the choice.

>> I still say that the Voodoo cards would be the best choice considering
>> the amount of documentation available, but what Didier does is his
>> choice.
>
> The Voodoo 3000? I've still got one of those. It was the first video card
> I ever used with Linux, mostly because of its great support, out of the
> box, at the time.

Those cards are ancient. Asking my voodoo 3 to do 1680x1050 which I need
for my LCD would not go well. If we're going to do it, we should do it
right. Even if ATI cards have less support, they have the support we need
to get things up and running. They're VERY fast too. The eclipse makes a
stock falcon twice as fast. Just ask Carey. 128kbit mp3 on a falcon uses
over 100% cpu time at times. Accelerate BUS and CPU, add an eclipse card,
and it uses somewhere around 30-40% (with DSP). It's important to let the
devs choose what they're most comfortable with, and I'd say ATI is it. We
want to get a product sometime this century.

Thanks,
Mark

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