r128 or new card

[Alex Deucher]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Alberto Hernando <pajaro.go at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm using an old xpert2000 card. It has r128. My other card died but I had
> this and...
> Well, in the past, at least with xfree86, I remember using it with 3d.
> glxgears gave me about 500-600 fps. But now dri doesn't work. It even hangs
> the machine. I wanted to ask this before, but yesterday, in the announce for
> 6.8.191, I saw that r128 is being deprecated. It doesnt' surprise me, after
> all. Well, I wanted to know if there is any hope of having a stable 3d with
> this card, perhaps with an older driver. But I can't test every version. I
> must say that I have **lots** of random crashes too, but I thought that the
> driver was buggy. Perhaps it's buggy only for this chipset. Well, if I have
> to buy another one, what about a sapphire 9600? It must be pretty old,
> because I've seen it for only 27.95€. But my whole pc is pretty old too,
> so...

the r128 driver is not deprecated, it's just a separate driver now
(xf86-video-r128).  although, I don't know how well it's been tested
lately.  most radeons should work fine.

Alex