April distribution release: radeon or radeonhd for r500 / r600 cards?

[Daniil Kolpakov]

В сообщении от Четверг 06 марта 2008 Adam Williamson написал(a):
> On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 11:41 +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 11:45:20AM +0200, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 10:11:10AM +0530, JoJo jojo wrote:
> > > > for r500/r600 radeonhd is more mature,
> > > > support in radeon is still pretty new.
> > > >
> > > > once we go past the maturity aspect, you may choose
> > > >
> > > > stability Vs. features
> > > > (radeonHD Vs. radeon)
> > >
> > > Except that radeon seems to be more stable.
> >
> > Feel free to give some hard facts here.
>
> Hey now, everyone play nice or I'm going back to fbdev, and no-one wants
> that ;)

My 2 cents of offtopic here :)

I've just installed Mandriva from the latest official Live CD with support for 
closed-source drivers 3 weeks ago. The machine had "ATI Technologies Inc 
RV515 PRO [Radeon X1300/X1550 Series]" display adapter. I'm not really for 
non-free drivers, but that LiveCD was just what we happen do download that 
day. I must say, I've tried fglrx driver, but it didn't managed to set a 
proper video mode for the monitor, so I've tried VESA. That was amazing: 
1280x1024 works really fast, with compozing and transparent windows 
(all-software). I've never got acceptable results speedwise on my home 
computer with 1680x1050 monitor and AGP video card (2 x AMD Opteron 246 
CPUs), but the newer computers with PCI-Express video and modern processors 
seem to be able to do all work in software without much pain.

By the way, Mandriva is a great distribution! :)

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