OT about ATI cards Re: [MPlayer-users] Two graphicscards..

[Anders Rune Jensen]

On Tue, 1 Oct 2002 14:55:36 +0200
Dexter Filmore <Dexter.Filmore at gmx.de> wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Ok, here some info about ATI cards from somebody who unfortunately purchased
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What have you been smoking? ;) I have a Radeon 8500 aka. r200 that
works perfect in mplayer (xvideo) and runs 250+fps in q3 :)

> one:
 
> Linux drivers from XFree86 support Radeon 7xxx in 2D/3D, Radeon 8xxx in 2D,
> and just recently ATI release the FireGL drivers under different name as
> semi-official 8500-drivers, but those are rather crippled as the FireGL cards
> don't come with RageTheatre, so no DVD accel, no TV out, no VideoIn. 
> This is what's gonna make me buy an NV card next time. the output signal
> quality is not as good as on ATI boards, but I can live with that as long as
> I'll be able to play Doom3 in Linux.

Try the dri drivers. Who cares about closed source shit anyway? :(

> The reason why ATI doesn't support the RT chip is that they had to implement
> Macrovision, which of course can't be done open source. Tho I can't tell why
> they don't go ahead and provide closed src as NV does.
> 
> (and for you Windoze users: the 60Hz problem is due to the ineptness of the
> Redmond lunatics who failed to properly implement autodetection. You need a
> refresh fix tool, watch out: if using ATI catalyst drivers you a tool which
> can handle Catalyst, else -> no effect)
> 
> Dex

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Anders Rune Jensen
anders at gnulinux.dk