Re: [SLE] ATI Drivers and SuSE 10

On Tuesday 06 December 2005 01:14, William H Lugg wrote:
> I don't have time right now to get the number you requested, but will
> in a day or two. I would STRONGLY advise against the purchase of an
> ATI card. While I find performance to be fine, their support of
> Linux is not nearly as seemless as NVidia. The machine with the ATI
> card took about 30 minutes to get the video working properly on, and
> only after some much appreciated help from Joe Morris, also on this
> list.
>=========
As always, there are differing opinions about graphics cards. I went
through the nVidia fiasco a few times trying to get their drivers to
work with different cards without success. There is hardly anyone here
that runs a nVidia that hasn't had a problem one time or another with
their drivers & cards. ATI simply works and their attitude towards
Linux is good. If they weren't Linux friendly, then why are the ATI
driver modules included with the kernel already? Setting up ATI in
SUSE is just a matter of configuring graphics, either through YaST2 or
sax2 from a terminal. The ATI cards just work! Except for the
absolute latest models of cards, even those work with 2D, working with
3D is easy. The only time, I've found, that the ATI proprietary
drivers need to be installed are when there are dual monitors or TV
cards involved. Installing the new ATI drivers seems very painless to
me anyway, install an RPM file, run sax2 and have fun.
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> My other machine runs an NVidia card. I upgraded from 9.3 and ran
> YOU after it was done. One of the choices was to get the NVidia
> driver. I did it and in about 10 minutes she was up and running.
>
> FWIW, I also do some gaming in Windows (WW II simulations) and have
> found the ATI performance to be so so. Now, I don't have a
> comparable NVidia card to stick in the machine to try it, but I was
> certainly expecting more, based on the advertising.
>
> I'll try to get those numbers to you in the next couple of days.
>
> YMMV
> --
> Bill Lugg
> Milstar Software Support
> Peterson AFB, CO
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Bill not sure what problems you had, most probably trying to install the
ATI drivers, but unless you had special needs or just had to have the
drivers, it just doesn't take that long to configure an ATI. The ATI
cards performance is easily comparable to the nVidia, so I do believe
the OP would be happy with either.

regards,
Lee

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