Re: about the linux ATI proprietary drivers writers team

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:57:03 +0100, Rikishi 42 wrote:

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...

Yes, odd. As in the tldp.org need not apply. Since they've moved or
renamed things, or otherwise scripted them to death.


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?

Actually I do find CD quality sound too low. But I'm a trombonist and
like my trombone to sound more like a trombone than a synthesizer. But in
term of video, I prefer 16 bit so I get better performance. I'm a little
color deficient so it's not like I'm gonna miss a few million colors that
the monitor couldn't accurately reproduce anyway.


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?

Because firefox doesn't come with a zoom feature (that I know of). So
when someone posts a fairly low res picture of themselves or some alumni,
I can Cntrl+Alt+[+] to zoom in on the pic. Otherwise I'm looking at
something the size of a postage stamp, or desktop icon. Using a change
in resolution to zoom is easier/quicker than having to save as and
open it in a picture viewer capable of zooming. Plus when I'm checking
email first thing in the morning and my eyes aren't quite focused yet,
it's nice to make the thing bigger without having the bring the lcd of the
laptop within 5"'s of my face. Or restart X with a different dpi setting.
And then there's pogo.com with their 640x### java applets, that are just
to small to play well without zooming in. And minesweeper in expert mode
that suffers a similar fate.

Since you asked.
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