On Tuesday 17 October 2006 02:31, Greg Wallace wrote:
reading on this list, I get the impression that Radeon (ATI) is not looked upon as being of the same quality as NVIDIA.
i just got a new machine to replace me 3-year-old box which died. The older one had an add-on NVidia. i forget which chipset, but definitely not the highest-end. My replacement box has an on-board Radeon Xpress 200G... i'm not impressed with it at all. The problems include: a) For inexplicable reasons, the fonts are all really small in X. i've had to reconfigure my KDE fonts to larger than normal sizes, which means they're HUGE when i log in remotely from one of the other machines (which use different X drivers). Some apps, like Google Earth don't allow changing the font sizes, and the text in the menus, etc., is literally too small to read. Some screens, like the KDM login, still have annoyingly small fonts. 10-point is almost too small to read under this driver (the "official" driver from ati.com). b) It flickers while playing video. Not *horribly*, but noticeably. My NVidia, though it was a few years older, didn't do this. c) Sax crashes under this chipset when i start it and click the "change configuration" button. i had to let the ATI driver installer edit the xorg.conf file (this is a step in the install process) and then hack it a bit by hand. Under NVidia, i never had any problems when using the default driver or the accelerated one from NVidia, except that i didn't have hardware acceleration using the free driver (but i don't need it for what i do). Aside from when playing 3D-centric games, i didn't notice any difference between those two drivers, and eventually dropped the accelerated driver for the default driver just so i wouldn't spend so much time playing games. -- ----- stephan@s11n.net http://s11n.net "...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands of the will." -- Alan W. Watts