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On 2007-02-23, Hamie <hamish@××××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> I was bying ATI cards because the open-source driver supported |
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>> DRI (it was a bit flakey, but it mostly "just worked"). But, |
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>> that ended with the 92xx series. My experience (and the |
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>> general consensus, AFAICT) is that the NVidia closed-source |
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>> drivers are far less problematic than the ATI ones. |
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>> |
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>> I've got a 3 year old ATI card that ATI doesn't support at all |
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>> anymore with Linux drivers. I've got a 6 year old NVidia card |
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>> that still works perfectly and all I had to do is "emerge |
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>> nvidia-drivers" |
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>> So I think NVidia is the way to go in general. |
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>> [The problem is that you don't get much of a choice with |
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>> laptops. My IBM ThinkPad was too good a deal to pass up even |
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>> though it came with an ATI M300.] |
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> If you have anything up to X600 (Maybe even X700) graphics |
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> (basically 9600 on PCIe) then the open source drivers should |
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> work fine... |
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I know the OS driver is supposed to work -- and it did work for |
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a while -- at leastit worked in in a manner: the frame rates |
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weren't very good and there were a lot of noticable rendering |
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glitches. |
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Then one day after an "emerge update", the open source |
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driver no longer worked: any time an OpenGL program ran, the X |
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server crashed. I futzed around with the open-source DRI |
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driver for a while, but was unable to get it to work again -- |
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so I gave up and switched to ATI's driver (which ATI has now |
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abandonded). |
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Once I get the ATI drivers to work, they seem to work well (at |
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least for me) with much higher frames rates than the |
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open-source driver and no noticable rendering problems. |
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> Mine is an X1400 sadly, so I don't even get LCD native |
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> resolution without the damned ATI drivers (Because it's flakey |
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> as hell with their DRI, and suspend to RAM doesn't work... |
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> Still... So why even bother). |
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Next time I'm picking NVidia if I can... |
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Grant Edwards grante Yow! I want to kill |
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at everyone here with a cute |
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visi.com colorful Hydrogen Bomb!! |
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