Re: [gnome-slackware][OT] ATI Radeon VE RFC

[Sasa Ostrouska <sasa ostrouska volja net>]

Kris,

	I do not know so much about what VE at the end means. I have a Dell
Inspiron with an ATI Radeon with 64MB and I'm using RH7.2 on it and
it works without any problems. I think also Slack can be used with that
card. I have not tried it. Most probably you will get much feedback from
an comp.os.linux related news group or try the xfree site for info. 

Rgds
Sasa

On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 18:11, kristian rink informatik tu-chemnitz de
wrote:
> Hi all,...
> 
> ... being aware that this is not related to GNOME at all and quite off-topic, 
> I beg your pardon for posting this here. Though, I posted this some time 
> earlier on slackware topica com but seems there are too few people on that 
> list to actually be able to give me some help, here. Even a "ask this in 
> <name-of-mailing-list-more-appropriate-for-this>" would do well for an answer. 
> TIA! :)
> 
> Well, some days ago I was astounded to finally see one of the 64 meg ATI 
> Radeon boards in one of our German computer stores (sadly, those aren't very 
> familiar around here) and immediately got this one, but, being home, I 
> realized that there are two small letters VE appended to the cards name, so I 
> was google'ing for this topic and saw several posts of persons both having 
> severe problems with the Radeon VE and XFree86 or being totally disappointed 
> with its performance. Dunno if anyone of you guys is owning / running / 
> knowing about this board, but if so, and to make things short, please give me 
> some hints on:
> 
> (a) Is it possible to get the ATI Radeon VE properly to work with XFree86 
> 4.2.0 (from slack-current or self-built) and kernel 2.4.18+ and DRI (I don't 
> need both dual-head or tv-out - support, just want to have my single monitor 
> to work properly with this card :] )?
> 
> (b) Comparing to the graphics board I am having inside my box now (Elsa Erazor 
> III LT w/ TNT2 M64 chipset and nvidia.com - drivers), am I likely to have a 
> performance gain by replacing this one with the Radeon VE board? Is the Radeon 
> VE having at least the same performance (both 2D and OpenGL) as the TNT2M64 
> has? 
> 
> (c) Seeing that the Radeon VE obviously is a "Radeon lite": Where exactly are 
> the differences to a "real" Radeon board?
> 
> So, I'm thinking about whether to put this board into my box and finally being 
> free of the proprietary NVidia drivers or, other side, to bring the Radeon VE 
> back to the computer store. Give me some hints, please! :)
> 
> TIA, have a nice day everyone wherever you are.
> Cheers,
> Kris
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