Re: [gNewSense-users] Compatible Video Cards with 3D Acceleration

[Romel Sandoval]

On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 22:01 -0400, Jorge Benavides Escobillana wrote:
> > I am looking for an AGP8X gNewSense Compatible Video Cards with 3D
> > Acceleration. I see on the FSF site [1] but apart from the ATI cards all
> > are integrated. And AFAIK gNewSense removes the ATI support modules from
> > the kernel. Help please!
> > 
> > [1] http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/video
> 
> According to [2], the R200 based cards are the faster cards fully
> supported by free drivers. Since they are free, I suppose they are not
> removed from gNewSense.

Can anybody confirm this. Is R200 based cards 3D acceleration supported
on gNewSense? Don't contains binary blobs?

thanks

> 
> AMD is promising to release free drivers for newer ATI cards, but it's
> not confirmed [3]. Perhaps you could wait and buy a newer ATI card if
> free drivers are released.
> 
> [2] http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon
> [3] 
> http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/05/09/amd-will-deliver-open-graphics-drivers/
>