Re: [opensuse] Which Graphics card for openSUSE 11.4 and the future?

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:48, Kai-Uwe Behrmann <ku.b@xxxxxx> wrote:
Would a openSUSE version with long term support help with keeping the ATI
binary drivers working?

Not really. The fglrx drivers are kernel specific... so anyone with
an older ATI card that is in legacy support even with the Windows
drivers... is out of luck on the binary drivers. The current fglrx
drivers will not work with the legacy cards, and the old versions of
the fglrx drivers that support the legacy cards won't build against
the newer kernels.

If you've got an older ATI card, the FLOSS drivers work fine for
regular desktop support. In my experience, where the FLOSS fall down
are with HDMI support, and gaming... if those two things are not in a
consideration, then ATI is not an issue... and long term support isn't
a win or a loss.

C.
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