On Thursday 22 December 2005 12:08 am, John Jordan wrote: > On 21 Dec 2005, at 21:31, Neal Becker wrote: > > I have a r3000z that I'm very pleased with. I need a new one for my > > son. What to get that will run linux well? > > As far as I know, all the new Compaqs use ATI chipsets, which > suck. I had an R4000 and ended up returning it to HP. > > Instead I bought an R3240 brand new from someone on eBay. > works great with Ubuntu-64 Breezy. Were I in your position I would > see if I could find an R3xxx somewhere. I think the switch to ATI > started with the R4xxx series.
OK, I see that rpms.livna.org has driver packages for ati. I am using their nvidia package now and am very happy with it. Why does ATI suck? If I buy an ATI machine and use livna ATI packages will I be happy? _______________________________________________ LinuxR3000 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/
