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On 2008-06-17, Platoali <platoali@×××××.com> 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 |
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> kernel regardless of how much open/free the drivers is. |
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Definitely nVidia. Over the past few years I've had a 3-4 of |
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each (ATI and nVidia). |
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I've had continuous problems with ATI (on all 3 different |
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boards/chipsets). DRI works sort-of, some of the time. The |
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free drivers lock up, the closed-source drivers work a little |
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better have have bugs even in 2D mode. The video overlay never |
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worked on one of my ATI board (the one that used to be in my |
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HTPC setup). |
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All the nVidia cards "just work". The open 2D drivers "just |
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work". The closed 3D drivers "just work". |
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> I'm currently thinking between Nvidia Quadro fx 1700 and Ati |
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> firegl 5600. Does anyone have any comment about them? |
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I run a dual-DVI Quadro something-or-other and never had a |
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single problem. Just did an emerge nvidia-drivers, and |
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everything (including DRI) worked. Same for a dual-head nVidia |
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6200 setup. |
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