Re: [SLE] ATI Drivers and SuSE 10

Is there any particular reason, why you sent this message almost three
years ago? According to the message, it was sent on Jan 6, 2003! ;-)

H du Plooy wrote:
> 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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