recommended ati graphic hardware

[Xavier Bestel]

On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 14:29 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 13:03 +0100, Sebastian Niehaus wrote:
> > Sorry, this may be off topic on a developers mailing list.
> > 
> > 
> > I was searching if there is such a thing as a "Developer's Choice" in
> > ATI Graphic hardware.
> > 
> > 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
> 
> It works well, does OpenGL sufficiently to run XBMC. Sometimes Xorg
> happens to die when playing movies, but it's quite rare.

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.

	Xav