[compiz] technical low-end possibilities of xgl?

Sven Jaborek sven-tek at gmx.de
Wed Aug 2 11:03:46 PDT 2006


Hi,

iam interested if some matrox cards are known to work ,g450 for example?

regards, Sven

Am Dienstag, den 01.08.2006, 17:16 +0200 schrieb Mark Rosenstand:
> On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 22:02 +0800, 张韡武 wrote:
> > Currently xgl supports modern ATI/Nvidia cards, is there any reason why
> > older cards are not supported? Is it because old cards are not powerful
> > enough, or is it because xgl is using some new 3D technologies? (OpenGL
> > 2.0?)
> 
> At least my old ATI Radeon 7000 is working perfectly (the only missing
> feature is the water plugin, which appears to only work on modern NVIDIA
> cards.)
> 
> You can get this card from just about any hardware retailer for around
> $20, but if you toss in an extra $15 you can probably get a 9250 which
> has better performance and still works with the open radeon driver.
> 
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