On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Jarod Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, there *is* an open-source driver being worked on for all recent > ATI hardware.
I got burned by ATI once, several years ago. They were doing exactly what they are doing today -- saying they're starting to open up and work on a driver and support Linux and so on. Then the wind changed, and all their support evaporated. Driver development essentially halted, and eventually succumbed to software rot and stopped working with newer distros. :-( So, before I trust ATI again, I'm waiting to see if they actually *keep* supporting Linux through more than one product cycle. > Slow and feature-poor is relative. Intel's graphics hardware certainly > ain't for gamers ... Yah, if all you're doing is word processing, email, web pages, and other plain stuff, Intel's stuff is good enough. But gaming (2D or 3D), CAD, or any kind of 3D acceleration -- ick. A lot of games flat-out refuse to run. The 3D stuff exhibits lots of display artifacts. Push it hard, and the driver crashes. At least, it does on 'doze. Windows XP actually traps the driver crash and falls back to 16 color VGA, giving you a chance to save your work before restarting, but it's still a major failure. -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/