Re: about the linux ATI proprietary drivers writers team

On 2008-01-28, Shadow_7 <wwwShadow7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I would like to know whether it is normal that ATI releases proprietary
drivers for linux that are quite a lot more buggy and a less fine than for
windows?

They are buggy. But they are specifically designed for odd distros like
RedHat, and SuSE.
Odd distro's ?

Please...

When I first started using the ATI drivers on my Radeon Xpress 200M 5595
(PCIE) it would only work in 24 bit colors.
I see. You'd be the kin of person that find CD sound to low of quality, too?

The main issue I had with the radeon driver was that the 3D acceleration
was virtually non-existent. But it was nice to have more resolution modes
available so things didn't get so stretched out when Cntrl+Alt+[+]-ing
through the modes.
Out of sincere curiousity: do you change the resolution that often? Why?

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