Re: nvidia vs ati
From: Erik Steffl (steffl_at_bigfoot.com)
Date: 11/30/03
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Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 10:27:20 -0800 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Nicos Gollan wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 00:15:32 +0100
> Frank Thomas <news-reply@thomas-alfeld.de> wrote:
>
>
>>I recommend you to buy a video card with a nVidia chipset. Why?
>>I mailed the ATI support in this summer regarding their linux drivers,
>>read the answer below. For me this was very disappointing.
>
>
> ATI seems to have changed their stance on Linux drivers lately. They
> integrated at least part of the development with the regular Catalyst
> releases and the last few drivers offered pretty good performance and
> compatibility. The only problems I encountered so far are a rather
> touchy AGPGART integrated driver, instability under kernel 2.6.0-testX
> (although you wonder why those are running anyway) and problems with TV
> overlay in conjunction with 2.6.0 kernels. 3D support absolutely rocks
> and 2D performence has gotten a *lot* better in the last few months.
the only major (for me) ATI problem is that you cannot run more than
one X server, if you run another X server it will freeze the machine
(completely, hw reset required), that's what it does with Radeon 9800
(and I've read about it somewhere, seems like a known issue, IIRC it was
on the rage3d.com forums)
also: ATI (probably all of them, tech support said DVI autodetection
works the same on all ATI cards) and Nvidia cards (FX 5600 Ultra) do not
recognize Apple HD Cinema 23 inch display during boot, it's connected
via DVI and it's not autodetected (both win xp and XFree86 can use it
once told explicitly)
erik
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