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Just in case you still had some lingering possibility of using ATI, I |
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thought I'd respond as well :) |
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Firstly, once you have gone through the pain of getting the ati drivers |
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to work (and sure, some people fluke the right combination first go and |
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wonder what all the fuss is about) - things such as kernel version, X |
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version, ati-driver version, etc. - Any change to any of these |
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components can break it again. |
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On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 18:54 -0400, JimD wrote: |
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> Anyway I want to get some feedback on the current ATI driver state. Are |
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> they stable |
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No, they are not stable. Again, maybe some people haven't had issues |
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with their systems, but for others (like me) they crash on random things |
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- like sometimes logging out of X. |
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But then, so does the xorg radeon driver... |
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> and pretty easy to use/install? |
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yes, gentoo makes it easy :) 1. emerge ati-drivers, 2. edit xorg.conf to |
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use fglrx, 3. restart X. |
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> Any problems with games? |
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> How about commercial OpenGL games ported to Linux like Call of Duty and |
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> Doom 3? |
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Haven't tried those games, but the OpenGL screensavers fly on my |
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machine. |
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> I probably will just go with NVidia. NVidia's Linux support has always |
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> been rock-solid for me |
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that's a good reason to "go with what you know"! |
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> However, a nice new ATI at those prices is tempting if ATI has gotten |
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> their Linux act together. |
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They're trying. If you look at the ATI forums, ATI occasionally puts in |
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their defence, but IMHO it's still too little. For example, the amount |
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of time it takes them to release a driver for a new kernel is just too |
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long. |
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> Do the proprietary ATI Linux drivers have |
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> *all* of the features that the proprietary ATI Windows drivers have? |
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nope. |
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> One thing I like about NVidia's driver is that it is a unified driver |
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> model and the drivers are basically feature for feature identical on the |
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> different oses. |
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really? Wow, if I didn't have a laptop, I would have bought an NVidia |
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card by now. |
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HTH! |
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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When man calls an animal "vicious", he usually means that it will attempt |
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to defend itself when he tries to kill it. |
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