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Platoali wrote: |
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> Well, last night the graphic card of my laptop got broken. So I'm |
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> considering to replace it with a workstation for some graphic |
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> applications (Mainly blender and gimp.) I need 3d acceleration, and my |
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> poor laptop was rendering for hours to get my job done. So I decide to |
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> buy a workstation instead a laptop. I want to ask, which graphic cards |
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> are better supported in Linux. I know that ATI have freed or in the |
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> process of freeing their graphic cards driver. But I did not have any |
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> good memory from my previous experience with ATI. My previous card was |
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> ATI radeon 9600m and it never worked the way it had to until broken. |
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> I want to know, what is the current status of ATI drivers in Linux? |
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> Does the problems have been solved? Can they compete with Nvidia? |
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> And I want to know which one is better supported in Linux kernel |
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> regardless of how much open/free the drivers is. I'm currently |
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> thinking between Nvidia Quadro fx 1700 and Ati firegl 5600. Does |
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> anyone have any comment about them? |
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ATI's drivers have been buggy to the point that I avoid them 100% of the |
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time when using linux. In multiple systems, using their drivers means |
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that my system will hard hang 100% of the time when exiting xorg in any |
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way. Such as logging out, killing xorg, rebooting, etc. |
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Nvidias drivers are far more stable in linux, I would strongly suggest |
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going that route. I do not know the specifics of those cards, sorry. |
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