recommended ati graphic hardware

[Sebastian Niehaus]

Hi.

Xavier Bestel schrieb:
> On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 14:29 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:

>>> I am looking for a silent card which works on Debian Squeeze
>>> (xserver-xorg-video-ati version 6.13.1). Performance is not an issue.

>> I'm using an HD2600 under squeeze. I have updated the libdrm* packages
>> to the unstable version (2.4.23-0.0), I can't remember why and maybe
>> it's even unneeded, but otherwise I think it's all squeeze:
>> xserver-xorg-video-radeon 1:6.13.1-2+squeeze1
>> xserver-xorg-core 2:1.7.7-11
>> libgl1-mesa-dri 7.8.2-2

> Oh sorry, I realize I forgot an important component: kernel is
> 2.6.37-trunk-amd64 (from experimental), which probably explains why the
> newer libdrm, and is definitely *not* squeeze. I needed it for the newer
> KMS in there AFAIR.

Yes, I read that KMS support has been added in a post-Squeeze kernel
(2.6.34 IIRC. Squeeze has 2.6.32).

At least *I* can live without KMS right now if the generic ("non-KMS")
mode works fine.


Thank you /very/ /much/ for your imput.


Hint to ATI: I have to spend some money now. Perfomance is not an issue,
silence is one. Money is not a big issue, open source drivers are. I
really would appreciate an ATI solution otherwise I might consider an
Intel mainboard and Graphic solution.


Sebastian