AW: [MPlayer-users] ati radeon 8500

[gabor]

> > so, my questions are:
> >
> > 1. 2d: are there any ati8500 drivers for xfree that support xvideo etc?
> > 2. 3d: are there any opengl drivers for ati8500?
> >
> the gforce chip is MUCH faster than the radeon...
> the gforce driver is very fast (its from nvidia itself...) but the gforce
> drivers are closed source
> the ati drives are not developed by ati and they are open source...
> take a look at www.xfree86.org to see about the drivers...
> the tv-out signal of the ati card is better and its online at bootup - so u
> can connect ur pc to ur tv an watch the kernel coming up ;)
> 
> if u want best performance take the nvidia - vidix is coming up...
> if u want a flexible and good tv-out solutin witch is already supported by
> vidix take the ati...

ok. and you know anything about 3d support for ati?
are there any opengl drivers for that card? i've seen opengl drivers for
some ati cards, but not for the ati8500..

bye,
gabor