Wojciech Podgórni wrote:
Hi, everyone!
I'm going to exchange my crappy ATI Radeon 9200 graphic card for NVIDIA FX5200 one. I would like to ask you a question: does the NVIDIA card works well with the Mandrake 9.2? Did you have any problems?
I am looking forward to reading your helpful responses.
TIA
Wojciech Podgórni
This would be better phrased as:
I'm going to exchange my crappy ATI Radeon 9200 graphic card for crappy NVIDIA FX5200 one.
I doubt there is any differnce in performance between the two, in fact I'd probably put the 9200 ahead if I were to take a guess..
If you must get a geforce, get at least the 5600 as the 5200 is a piece of junk.
Having said that, my Dell 5150 has an FX5200 card inbuilt and it works fine in 9.2 with the nvidia driver.
<My ATI rant>
No, it IS crappy because it is working and badly with some Windows games (GeForce 256 DDR didn't have those problems), and getting proprietary drivers working well (with acceleration) is a matter of pure luck (can as well crash the entire system). I NEVER expected to have a system crash under "professionally" (now I know the word needs to be put in "" marks here) made drivers - and during a *normal* usage of system. If anybody wants to have a system crash, do these steps:
- install ATI Radeon 9200 graphic card and its proprietary drivers in a system with KDE3.2
- choose "Start another session"
- in another session, try to go back to the first one (with Ctrl+Alt+F7)...
...and the system should hopelessly crash.
And no, my former graphic card (GeForce 256 DDR), didn't have ANY of these problems (with ANY of its drivers - OS or proprietary).
<End of my ATI rant>
I hope this clears my position on the crap called ATI Radeon 9200... :(
Wojciech Podgórni
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