Re: from my experiance: I wouldn't recommend ati

2008-12-18 Thread Oron Peled
On Thursday, 18 בDecember 2008, Erez D wrote: i have recently bought a new computer. my old one had nvidia , and my new has ati 4550 passive. ... [rest of horror story omitted] This is a typical usage scenario for binary add-on drivers (just google for e.g: ubuntu madwifi) What is more

Re: from my experiance: I wouldn't recommend ati

2008-12-18 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Erez, The latest versions of Ubuntu, as well as Fedora and OpenSuSE 11.x use the latest Xorg server which *does not* need the /etc/xorg.conf file. Everything regarding the card is being done automatically (probing etc), so when you install Fedora 10 for example, you won't find this file. I

Re: from my experiance: I wouldn't recommend ati

2008-12-18 Thread Erez D
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Oron Peled o...@actcom.co.il wrote: On Thursday, 18 בDecember 2008, Erez D wrote: i have recently bought a new computer. my old one had nvidia , and my new has ati 4550 passive. ... [rest of horror story omitted] This is a typical usage scenario for

Re: from my experiance: I wouldn't recommend ati

2008-12-18 Thread Erez D
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com wrote: Erez, The latest versions of Ubuntu, as well as Fedora and OpenSuSE 11.x use the latest Xorg server which *does not* need the /etc/xorg.conf file. Everything regarding the card is being done automatically (probing etc),

Re: from my experiance: I wouldn't recommend ati

2008-12-18 Thread Shlomi Fish
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

from my experiance: I wouldn't recommend ati

2008-12-17 Thread Erez D
If you arg thinking of buying a new graphic card, and want to choose ati i wouldn't recommend that. Although oficially ati has catalyst drivers for their new cards - it didn't work on mine (which is supported) i have recently bought a new computer. my old one had nvidia , and my new has