Wrong, big time! ATI Drivers are so horrible, that unless you have the real high end card (8xxx or 9xxx) - then their closed source drivers won't help you, and the open source drivers will give you AT BEST - 30-40% of speed in 3D.
I'm not mentioning the fact that there is no AGP driver for their IGP chipset (hello IBM thinkpad R20,R30,R40 users), and virtually NONE 3D acceleration for their IGP320, IGP340 chips.. Want more? sure, go buy their latest (and a previous generation) of ATI All In Wonder (AIW) cards and try to use their TV set and other features - good luck, it ain't working. I'm on the v4l mailing list and I see those complains all the times.. NVidia on the other hand IS supported with everything - starting with their 2D, 3D, all the latest X extensions, Video in/out, 2-4 headed screens right with their drivers. They also have a support channel in IRC (#nvidia on irc.kde.org), as well as forums and email.. Thanks, Hetz On Friday 02 January 2004 01:09 pm, Diego Iastrubni wrote: > ביום שישי, 2 בינואר 2004, 12:49, כתבת: > > Finally, I have a problem. When I use an OpenGL screensaver, the X server > > crashes and brings me back to command line. It doesn't happen with a > > non-OpenGL screensaver, so it's probably the driver's fault. I wish to > > know how can I resolve this. It is obvious that the lack of source code > > and its proprietary nature make the drivers relatively sub-standard. > > ATI ownz :) > > This crappy Radeon 7000 or 7200 works out of the box and has GPL sources... > inside X... ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
