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!!Support for ATI Radeon & FireGL graphics cards on Linux
+Generally, the ATI cards are not supported as well as Nvidia. If you are buying a new graphics card, you might be better off with an Nvidia, particularly with later model and higher spec cards.
-Back in the days when ATI didn't release up
to date drivers, NVIDIA didn't release AGPGART source
and I ran 2
.4
.20, I created a page called RadeonOnNforce, which apparently solved a lot of problems for a lot of people
.
+But it is possible
to get Radeon cards working. See notes at [the DRI wiki|http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon]
and [Radeon Linux howto|http://rsgibson
.com/Radeon_Linux_How-To
.htm]
.
-These days, the radeon driver that you get
from [ATI's webpage|http://mirror.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon-linux.html?type=linux&prodType=graphic&prod=productsLINUXdriver&submit.x=13&submit.y=12&submit=GO%21] is the most up to date version, and the latest stable kernels should have support for NVIDIA's AGPGART as it was released as open source by NVIDIA
.
+The current Linux drivers can be downloaded
from [ATI's webpage|http://mirror.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon-linux.html?type=linux&prodType=graphic&prod=productsLINUXdriver&submit.x=13&submit.y=12&submit=GO%21].
-Thanks very much to Curtis Box (no relation) for pointing out
the new
ATI drivers originally
.
+For info on older drivers, see
the page called RadeonOnNforce, which apparently solved a lot of problems for a lot of people.
+
+!!Mandriva
+
+
ATI drivers are available in rpm form from [plf]
. (Although with my 9600 pro card, I found that the drivers from ATI gave 3d hardware acceleration, but the plf rpms of the same verion did not.)
!!Fedora Core 2
Man, there's a lot of trouble geting drivers running on this. [ATI Radeon Drivers for Linux with a link to a FC2 patch|http://www.stanford.edu/~fenn/linux/radeon.shtml]
