[MPlayer-users] Re: best graphic card for MPlayer

[Sergei Klink]

On September 15, 2003 01:06 pm, The Wanderer wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>
> D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 11:07:45AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> >> I still have that card... a perfectly good 3D video card, but since
> >> everyone in the household runs either Linux or MacOS X - and we
> >> don't know anyone who both runs Windows and could get use out of it
> >> - it's just sitting around gathering dust. >_<
> >
> > If you don't run windows, then don't buy windows hardware? Is it that
> > hard? Do a simple google search or ask on irc before buying hardware
> > to avoid wasting lots of money. I can understand when people who've
> > switched from windows to *nix complain that their hardware isn't
> > supported, but if you're buying the hardware and already using linux,
> > you have no excuse for not checking before you buy... :)
>
> Thing is, I thought I *had* looked, and had seen reports that "yes,
> Radeon cards are supported". A friend has - I think it's a Radeon 9000+,
> and that works, so I had no reason to expect the 9100 to be any
> different. I seem to have just picked the *one* chipset that isn't
> supported, or at least wasn't at the time.

I thought that DRI project supported everything up to 9200 for quite some 
time, but only with X 4.3.0...
Btw, did you also see this?:
"The Radeon 9100 is a rerelease of the Radeon 8500 because it is faster than 
the Radeon 9000 (see below), the windows drivers offer "pixel shader 
supported video deblocking filtering" for this 
card."(http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/radeon_naming.phtml)
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