[ubuntu-x] State of support for radeon HD 4350

[Timo Jyrinki]

2009/9/24 Khashayar Naderehvandi <khashayar.lists at gmail.com>:
> I have been asked to purchase a computer for the company I work with.
> I've been looking at the Dell Vostro 220s which comes with the HD 4350
> (RV710 GPU). I can't seem to find any definite information on what the
> state of this chipset is on Jaunty and Karmic. We would - as far as
> possible - like to use open source drivers. Since Karmic is pretty
> close to release, I would consider installing it if there's no support
> in Jaunty.

Unless the specific HD 4350 on Dell Vostro has a special PCI ID, it
should be supported for accelerated 2D with open source drivers in
both Ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10, including Xvideo extension. Of course, 9.10
has newer versions of the related components, and the support was
relatively new in 9.04.

The basic pieces of 3D support with open source drivers are in place
in 9.10, but it was disabled in Mesa recently because of unmaturity.
It can be re-enabled by installing mesa from xorg-edgers PPA
repository for the time being. It will probably be enabled by default
in 10.04 LTS.

-Timo