[olug] ATI Radeon 7200 (Was: FC4 and Matrox Drivers)

[Mario Steele]

Jesse Regier wrote:

>It looks like FC4 has major issues with the matrox video drivers and it
>gets pretty ugly with my G550.  So It looks like I'm in the market for a
>new video card.  It wouldn't drive my Samsung 910t LCD monitor at the
>full resolution in digital mode anyway.  
>
>So what are people out there using?  I don't need high end 3D
>acceleration for games and such.  I just need a decently fast card that
>can do DVI out at 1280x1024.  I've always stayed away from the Nvidia
>cards because of the whole binary driver issue.  
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=153729
>https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2991
>
>
>Another interesting thing I noticed is that they are advertising that
>FC4 has OpenOffice 2.0 but he rpms in FC4 are 1.9 something.  Must be
>rounding up a development release or something.
>
>Jesse
>  
>
Speaking of Video Cards.....

I've been looking to get 3D Support enabled for my ATI Radeon 7200 (I 
think), which identifies itself as a Northbridge IGP 320M.  As you can 
guess, I'm running on a laptop, so switching video cards isn't an 
option.  I've tried Fedora Core 3 (Which I'm on now), SuSE 9.2, and 9.3, 
I have yet to see any of them fully enable 3D Support for me.  9.2 shows 
the 3D features as "being enabled", but when I actually go to use it, 3D 
programs aren't that fast at all.  And on SuSE 9.3, and FC3, I haven't 
been able to get any 3D program to run full screen, without it 
completely halting out my system.

I've searched the internet high and low, and all I get, is the Radeon 
9000+ video cards, and nothing anywhere near my IGP 320M.  Even the 
newest Released drivers from ATI do not support my lowly little card.  
Any direction will be much appreciated.

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