Hello, I can only comment about my experience (facts). On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:42:22 +0430 Platoali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, last night the graphic card of my laptop got broken. So I'm > considering to replace it with a workstation for some graphic > applications (Mainly blender and gimp.) I need 3d acceleration, and my > poor laptop was rendering for hours to get my job done. So I decide to > buy a workstation instead a laptop. I want to ask, which graphic cards > are better supported in Linux. I know that ATI have freed or in the > process of freeing their graphic cards driver. No, they just released some specs. They did not release a single line of the fglrx driver source. > But I did not have any > good memory from my previous experience with ATI. My previous card was > ATI radeon 9600m and it never worked the way it had to until broken. > I want to know, what is the current status of ATI drivers in Linux? > Does the problems have been solved? Can they compete with Nvidia? > I tried it yet-once-more a couple of months ago, it did not work, just like the few dozens I've tried before. Particularly I found: 1.- 100% cpu usage under any wm, while idle 2.- xinerama just plainly doesn't work, it's not usable, and provoqued xorg log spamming due to a bug This was with an hd2600. > And I want to know which one is better supported in Linux kernel > regardless of how much open/free the drivers is. I'm currently > thinking between Nvidia Quadro fx 1700 and Ati firegl 5600. Does > anyone have any comment about them? I never found a nvidia card with did not work with a simple "emerge nvidia-drivers". They just work. In any case, luck with anything you choose. -- Jesús Guerrero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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