JimDog

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This card came bundled with my wife's Windows box (HP Pavilion). Since I was running an ATI capture card that wasn't working to well under Linux, I did the old swap-a-roo.

Although I haven't tested it with any games under Linux it does work perfectly fine so far (just your plain old desktop, X11, etc). Note that ATI has released drivers for this card on their website.

alaskazimm

Under Mandy 9.2, I had to track down a driver from the ATI website, trudge thru dependenceis, and finially get it working - sort of. With 10 Official, it configured itself during install with the proper modules and 3D accel. The only thing I had to set was the screen resolution. If you are looking for a cheap AGP card that works with Mandrake 10, this is it.

kaloyer

This product is a pretty good midrange video card, but it's not a very wise buy for linux. It works with X.org but the performance is sometimes not up to par with the Windows equivalent. The drivers from ATI don't work on the new kernel or X.org, so I had to stick with the original. The only game that works as good as or better than on Windows is Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. America's Army has abysmally poor graphics, including but not limited to, extremly bright reflections, chalky textures and slow performance. With Unreal Tournament 2004 that speed is nowhere near that same as on Windows. I reccomend an nVidia unless you like tinkering, alot. Ok, unles you LOVE tinkering. I got this to work EVENTUALLY, but it would take too long and require too many forum searches for the average user to figure out.

spacedoubtman

I got this card as a replacement for my gforce2 so I could output to my tv. Spent ages trying to get fglrx drivers working with opengl and dual head (tv as 2nd head).

In the end my problems were because of two things.
- Old nvidia drivers were still installed.
- I had vga=extended in lilo.conf

Hope this helps if anyone has similiar problems.

Lempour

a great card (for that price), well, a little tinkering needed, but with the proprietary drivers from ATi runs great. Good performance (x.org's or xfree86's drivers are a little slower in 3D) even to play some UT2004 in good resolution.

conclusion: recomended

kevcart3

I have had problems making this card properly in FC2, had problems with games and things like that, seems to lag really badly.

NOTE: I really don't like the ATI Driver support.

bornhj

Good card, bought it unaware of problems people have experienced. Runs great in my limited Linux gaming (Tux Racer). Get approx 600fps with standard drivers in glxgears, which is good enough for me. Only problem: used to use NVIDIA integrated, now, with the ATi, Tux has white patches on the fins and torso....

t3gah

With both default drivers in FC3 and SuSE 9.1 Personal the video card worked extremely well.

Updating drivers on both to the new ATI driver and it's dependencies caused all kinds of problems and the performance didn't increase as much as it should have, etc.

Gaming with the 9200 was a pleasant experience. Tux ran fast and so did Hexen II, Doom, Quake and Torcs 1.2.3


glxgears output...

Fedora Core 3 ("custom" install & FC3 radeon driver)
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[root@localhost torcs-1.2.3]# glxgears
6100 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1220.000 FPS
6193 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1238.600 FPS
6194 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1238.800 FPS
6193 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1238.600 FPS
6194 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1238.800 FPS
6190 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1238.000 FPS
21734 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4346.800 FPS
41765 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8353.000 FPS
41788 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8357.600 FPS
41778 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8355.600 FPS
41758 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8351.600 FPS
41622 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8324.400 FPS
41624 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8324.800 FPS
41663 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8332.600 FPS
41743 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8348.600 FPS


SuSE 9.1 Personal (default install & SuSE beta radeon driver, 3D accel enabled)
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acd@linux:~> glxgears
8148 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1629.600 FPS
13315 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2663.000 FPS
14861 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2972.200 FPS
14863 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2972.600 FPS
14862 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2972.400 FPS
14862 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2972.400 FPS
14862 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2972.400 FPS
14863 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2972.600 FPS
14190 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2838.000 FPS
10844 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2168.800 FPS
10844 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2168.800 FPS
10844 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2168.800 FPS
11738 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2347.600 FPS
14860 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2972.000 FPS
15590 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3118.000 FPS
22453 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4490.600 FPS
62578 frames in 5.0 seconds = 12515.600 FPS
76402 frames in 5.0 seconds = 15280.400 FPS
76419 frames in 5.0 seconds = 15283.800 FPS
76400 frames in 5.0 seconds = 15280.000 FPS
76233 frames in 5.0 seconds = 15246.600 FPS
76437 frames in 5.0 seconds = 15287.400 FPS
76417 frames in 5.0 seconds = 15283.400 FPS
76105 frames in 5.0 seconds = 15221.000 FPS

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When I first installed Suse 9.1, the card was working fine though I couldn't enable the 3D acceleration and at one point had inadvertently set Suse to run in the command line when it booted up. After upgrading to Suse 9.2, the card doesn't send any signals to the moniter when KDE starts up Do I have to install some new drivers for the card or switch to using Gnome instead of KDE?