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On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 07:45 -0700, Warren Block wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote:
> 
> > I have not tried xf86-video-ati, xf86-video-radeon work good enough for
> > me now.
> 
> radeon is part of the ati driver.  You can specify either "ati" or 
> "radeon" in the Driver section of xorg.conf.
> 
> radeonhd [-devel] is a separate driver from a different source.
> 
> IME, radeon is stable and works on the whole range of cards, although 
> acceleration may be lacking on the newer R600/R700 cards.  radeonhd aims 
> to support those newer cards but is more experimental.

The radeon driver has everything that radeonhd does except for hdmi
audio, afaik.  All cards that are supported by the radeon driver have
acceleration.

robert.

> So try ati/radeon.  If it doesn't work on your card, or doesn't provide 
> acceleration you need, then go to radeonhd.
> 
> -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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