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fire-eyes wrote: |
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> I strongly suggest avoiding ATI on Linux. My first card was a Radeon 9000. |
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> With ati's drivers, the following things were a daily occurance: Complete |
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> system hangs (even sysreq didn't matter at this point), games showing severe |
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> tearing artifacts, random X deaths, etc. |
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> I got an Nvidia after that to replace it, and I never once had issues like |
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> that. |
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By way of contrast, I've been running Tyan and Supermicro boards with |
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ATI radeon 9000 and 9200 cards for years without any issues on FreeBSD |
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4.8, 4.9, 5.3, 5.4 and now 6.0. I just use the supplied drivers that |
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come with Xorg (XFree in the past). |
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I'm really only using the 2D features of the card I guess, as I don't do |
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games and the most adventurous I get graphics wise is Gimp :-), but |
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nonetheless for me the cards are good, fast and cheap! |
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Cheers |
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Mark |
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