Re: [SLE] ATI Drivers and SuSE 10

On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 23:14 -0700, 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.

Everybody has their good and bad experience, and thus opinions on both
cards.

nVidia is ahead of ATi as far as the binary drivers go, simply because
they've been doing it for longer. Way back when they started supplying
the drivers, for the first couple of years, getting it running was a hit
and miss affair. Search the list archives of 3-4 years ago and you'll
see.

nVidia's driver is quite good now, but I think the main reason why we're
seeing so few problems with nVidia now is the way that SUSE has
integrated the installation in YOU - I was blown away by how smooth that
went.

ATi has made a lot of progress, their drivers have gotten a lot better
and the installation have gotten a lot easier. I just wish SUSE would
put the same effort into integrating the ATi driver installer into YOU.

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