On Thursday 18 December 2008, Erez D wrote: > If you arg thinking of buying a new graphic card, and want to choose > ati.... i wouldn't recommend that. > >
[Snipped] > so i say again. i wouldn't recomend buying from ATI. > from now on. no ati neither amd for me. > > (with nvidia i used twinview and tv-out. i hope the opensource ati driver > supports this ...) > My experience with ATI and Nvidia cannot be more different than yours. With my old Nvidia GeForce 4 MX card, I had frequent crashes or hangups with the proprietary driver. Then when I tried "nouveau" which is the truly open-source driver (the "nv" driver is written in hex), the screen would freeze when switching to the virtual console, etc. and I still didn't have 3-D. Furthermore, the GeForce 4 was the lowest card to be supported by the proprietary nvidia driver, and it is possible they have droppped support for it afterwards or are going to soon. After that card's fan died, I decided to replace it with an ATI card and bought an AGP ATI Radeon HD 2600 card. My Mandriva Cooker system detected it right after reboot (although used a 16-bit bpp instead of 24-bit which I had to fix), and I've been happily using the open-source RadeonHD drivers ever since. Now I can switch to virtual consoles and everything works without crashes. I still don't have usable 3-D acceleration (for this I need the proprietary fglrx drivers), but it should be supported soon in FOSS, because ATI released specifications for that (as opposed to Nvidia), and there's a team working on the FOSS drivers. I blogged about my ATI card here: http://community.livejournal.com/shlomif_tech/12324.html I should note, however, that I asked the RadeonHD IRC channel and mailing list for guidelines on how I can help in its development and didn't receive any good reply. Regards, Shlomi Fish > > cheers, > erez. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ What does "Zionism" mean? - http://xrl.us/bjn8u Shlomi, so what are you working on? Working on a new wiki about unit testing fortunes in freecell? -- Ran Eilam ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to linux-il-requ...@cs.huji.ac.il with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail linux-il-requ...@cs.huji.ac.il
