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If you are going to use any *nix, nvidia is the best option for years now. |
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The nvidia closed source drivers are of professional quality and have great |
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performance. Actually they are the *standard* for graphics in *nix, and many |
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(professional or not) applications actually support only nvidia. |
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The ati oss driver is still under development, sometimes it works ok, |
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sometimes not, and it is mostly for basic desktop usage and in my opinion it |
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is progressing too slow. Anyway, I don't like having a driver that uses 10% |
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of my hardware's capabilties. So until it actually reaches 100% (like the |
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rest of the linux drivers) I can't recommend ATI on linux and nvidia is the |
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way to go. |
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On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Florian Philipp < |
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lists@f_philipp.fastmail.net> wrote: |
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> Am 26.07.2010 01:01, schrieb James: |
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> > Florian Philipp <lists <at> f_philipp.fastmail.net> writes: |
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> >> I have a quick question: I plan to buy a notebook with an ATI Mobility |
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> >> Radeon HD 4250. How well would that one work? Can I reasonably expect |
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> >> Suspend2Ram, 3d acceleration etc to work stable? |
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> > |
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> > Well, lots of good information previously posted. Here's a |
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> > few more tidbits. When ATI video get's older, there's |
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> > always good opensource solutions to keep using it. Nvidia, |
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> > sometimes you toss in garbage can, or use vesa or |
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> > get lucky? Dunno, as I personally avoid Nvidia; other |
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> > insist on Nvidia..... kinda a religious thing with some..... |
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> > |
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> |
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> Hehe, religious is the right word. I remember a situation at my |
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> workplace: The admin of our departement IT ordered a Linux workstation |
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> with (fully supported) ATI graphics. At the last second he was overruled |
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> by the head of our institute's IT in favor of a completely unsupported |
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> and more expensive NVidia card. Not only did the poor guy have to wait |
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> two more weeks for the shipment to arrive, he was also stuck with the |
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> VESA driver for half a year and unstable NVidia drivers ever since. |
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> |
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> Well, thanks everyone who answered! Problem solved. |
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> Florian Philipp |
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