Hi everybody, first post here. I wished to report my experience with the brand new card I popped inside my machine. The AH3650 is a passively cooled AGP version of the HD3650 and the first RV635 AGP based card on the market AFAIK so I feared it would be hard to make it work with radeonhd.
As it turns out under version 1.2.1 (on Fedora 8 here) it works very well even though the driver doesn't recognize the card. Without hardware acceleration 2D performance is not exactly stellar but it does the job. The only really significant drawback which I hope will be fixed soon is that the card becomes very hot to the touch, probably because the radeonhd driver still doesn't support the clock-scaling features of the RV635.
Anyway big kudos to the radeonhd developers for offering this free alternative, no way a binary blob is going to touch my distro
As it turns out under version 1.2.1 (on Fedora 8 here) it works very well even though the driver doesn't recognize the card. Without hardware acceleration 2D performance is not exactly stellar but it does the job. The only really significant drawback which I hope will be fixed soon is that the card becomes very hot to the touch, probably because the radeonhd driver still doesn't support the clock-scaling features of the RV635.
Anyway big kudos to the radeonhd developers for offering this free alternative, no way a binary blob is going to touch my distro
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