Re: VGA cards

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 07:43, Camaleón <noelamac@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:33:41 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:


Yes, but people may need some functions that are not provided by Intel
cards. And remember that Intel driver also had its own glitches...

Intel works great for me.

FWIW, I gave up on using the ati drivers for my card, because I could
not be bothered with all the bugs and with having to reinstall and
configure it on every new kernel version.

So ATI are another brand, I'd recommend to avoid. From what I read, the
overall hassle is generally far less on using Intel cards. YMMV, of
course and not all models of any manufacturer behave the same...

Get an ATI card that is a little older and use the OSS driver, it works
very well. A few years back I had an r300 card and it was wonderful.

Nowadays, the latest 2d driver works on everything except r800
(5xxx series), and 3d works up to r500 (x1000 series) (r600/r700
3d has some support, r800 has none yet, although it is similar to
the previous two, so it shouldn't be hard to do).

Both, ATI and Nvidia are quite the same: they do not provide a complete
access to their hardware specifications and just provide closed source
drivers.

ATI provides complete access to the hardware specs, Nvidia provides
no access at all.


Cheers,
Kelly Clowers


--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Relevant Pages

  • Re: [SLE] Has anyone tried the new ATi Linux driver, version 8.14.13?
    ... ATI cards but will not give any 3d performance whatsoever. ... The radeon driver is installed by default, ... >>(stupid easy SINGLE driver install for most of their models (by ...
    (SuSE)
  • Re: ATI released drivers working with xorg 1.5 (Fedora 9)
    ... Fedora is .. ... the resultant driver runs like a half legged dog. ... pci-e ATI HD2400-Pro card, actually takes about 4 seconds using the fglrx ... I've asked xorg when we will see support for the currently shipping ati cards, ...
    (Fedora)
  • Re: Unknown use of F9 key
    ... reboot and quickly change back to no effects. ... My laptop has an ATI VGA device and it will not even let me set up ... on ati cards the opensurce driver supports many chipsets eith composite ... so the opensource driver improves constantly. ...
    (Ubuntu)
  • Re: So... I got me STALKER
    ... I was thinking how ironic the ATI / AMD merger was. ... Intel worked closely with ATI and AMD with nVidia. ... I hadn't heard about Intle and ATI being the better combo, but from the look of those new ATI cards and their benchmarks, I'm thinking that ATI and AMD aren't much of a combo... ...
    (comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action)
  • Re: Gaming AMD vs Intel
    ... >> more importantly driver support. ... >> Ditto for slower ATi vs faster nVidia, it's just that ATi is the one ... cards that was a piece of junk to put it politely. ...
    (comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action)