On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 18:19:05 +0100 Wojciech Podgórni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> <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 > What Frankie was saying is that both of the cards you mentioned don't perform well, even when the drivers for each card are installed and working properly. He suggested that you switch to at least an NVIDIA GeForceFX 5600 or 5700, because the 5200 doesn't perform that great at all. Nvidia drivers work fine under linux, so any NVIDIA card is ok, but we suggest you get something better than a 5200. John -- Mon Mar 8 12:55:55 CST 2004 ------------------------------ Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Better dead than mellow.
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