[Nottingham] Connect 3D Radeon 7000 AGP and Five Button Mouse info

[Simon]

On 10/27/05, Duncan John Fyfe <djf at star.le.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 15:12 +0100, Tony Shaw wrote:
> > Hello to one and all,
> >
> > I am currently looking to upgrade my system and I was wondering if a
> > Connect 3D Radeon 7000 32MB AGP graphics card (it uses the ATI chipset,)
> > would work with MDK 9.2.
> >
> Hmm, this question seems familiar...
>
> We have 'Radeon 7000/VE's in the machines at work.  If all you need is a
> 2D graphics card they are fine.  For anything 3D they are worthless -
> Tuxracer with not very good resolution might manage 1/5 frame per
> second.  My laptop does far better with it's onboard graphics card
> sharing system RAM.
>
> The XFree86 "radeon" driver worked fine.  Early X.org "radeon" drivers
> left artifacts all over the screen.  It was fixed ~ 2 months ago.
> I don't know anything about MDK 9.2 as to whether it will suffer or not.

As crap as they are, I suggest the use of the official ATI drivers
from www.ati.com
You may have to mess around getting them running but you will get
better 3D support than the standard X drivers (which are horrible...)

Simon