Re: ATI Radeon 7500


----- Original Message -----
From: "Transpower" <transpower@xxxxxxx>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
To: <distro@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 4:04 PM
Subject: ATI Radeon 7500


> I'm on SCO OpenServer 5.0.7. My current video card is the ATI Rage Pro
> LT, 8 MB, which works fine. However, I will be doing some more
> graphics intensive work and am considering purchasing the ATI Radeon
> 7500, which has a lot more graphics memory. According to SCO's Web
> site, the ATI Radeon 7500 is certified to work with 5.0.7, but I
> checked the video card list (running scoadmin) and it's not there. I
> also checked SCO's FTP site, but there are no ATI drivers there, just
> some for Nvidea. So: what's the answer? This has got to be trivial.

Define graphics intensive?

Running image magic or other programs to manipulate web graphics or scanned
documents and pdf's etc (or a certain filepro db front end contract job)
requires nothing in the way of special video hardware. A plain old 2 or 4
meg pci card with minimal 2-d hardware accelleration is as good as the
fanciest card on the planet.

3-d modelling & rendering mostly doesn't either although it some programs
(none that run on sco that I know of) can make use of 3-d hardware to throw
up rough approximations of models faster than a full accurate render would
be. But that's still only a small benefit.

Games and other real-time 3-d simulators are about all that benefits from
video hardware, and sco would have to be the absolute last choice of
platform for that kind of work.

The only thing that might need a special card is if you want to set up dual
monitors. There are dual head cards for $50 or less retail now. But I don't
know if the x server on sco even allows for that.

Brian K. White -- brian@xxxxxxxxx -- http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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