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On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 11:02 +0200, "Maximilian Bräutigam" wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> i would like to buy a new computer, but i need (of course) to use gentoo. furthermore i would buy a Radeon HD 4850 or Radeon HD 4870. How are these cards supported by gentoo and does everything work fine according to ati-drivers ebuild? i need the 3d support due to some molecular modeling software. |
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> my current graphics card is a nvidia and is well supported. |
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> please, share your experiences. |
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> thank you very much in advance. |
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> kind regards, |
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> der Max |
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According to ATI (AMD) |
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https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/catalyst_94_linux.pdf |
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these grafics cards are supported by their closed source drivers. You'll |
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need these for proper 3D. |
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Gentoo has support for them in "x11-drivers/ati-drivers". |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml |
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I have a Radeon HD 3400 (mobility) and the driver works very well. 3D is |
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good, 2D is not half as good as the OSS drivers (radeon and radeonhd), |
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but works too. |
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In my case suspend to ram and to disk (using tuxonice) both work well on |
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the primary display, on the secondary display I get wrong colors after |
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resume. |
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It's safe to say: Gentoo has proper ATI-support :) |
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Bye, |
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Daniel |
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