I think it's quite difficult to fint current information on the status of different features of the different radeon drivers.
Anyhow, I have a new computer which I mean to use mainly for gaming, which of course means Windows. But it would be nice to be able to run Linux on it as well. So I'm wondering whether this is a pointless excercise at the moment or whether it would be worthwile.
My graphics card is a passively cooled HD3870 (RV670?).
For it to be worthwile, to me, the kernel/X/driver would have to support the following:
1) Working 2D graphics. With working I mean useable, snappy, not 100% cpu usage for a second just because a window is resized. VT switching must be stable.
2) Power management. I have a passively cooled card; I want a quiet system and I don't want the card to burn itself out.
3) Support for hardware scaling etc for watching movies.
Is there a combination of software that can cope with this?
Anyhow, I have a new computer which I mean to use mainly for gaming, which of course means Windows. But it would be nice to be able to run Linux on it as well. So I'm wondering whether this is a pointless excercise at the moment or whether it would be worthwile.
My graphics card is a passively cooled HD3870 (RV670?).
For it to be worthwile, to me, the kernel/X/driver would have to support the following:
1) Working 2D graphics. With working I mean useable, snappy, not 100% cpu usage for a second just because a window is resized. VT switching must be stable.
2) Power management. I have a passively cooled card; I want a quiet system and I don't want the card to burn itself out.
3) Support for hardware scaling etc for watching movies.
Is there a combination of software that can cope with this?
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