[opensuse] ati radeon 4770
Hi all, does anyone have any experience with the new Radeon 4770? How does it work under linux/opensuse? I want to buy one, but only if it goes well without problem. Thanks, -- Eszter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 23 May 2009, Cseri Eszter wrote:
Hi all,
does anyone have any experience with the new Radeon 4770? How does it work under linux/opensuse? I want to buy one, but only if it goes well without problem.
Thanks, -- Eszter
Hi . If you read the archives you will see there is a lot of problems with ATI cards ok if all you want is 2D but 3D is another bag of worms entirley i have a laptop lumbered with an ATI card and it is the first and last machine i will purchase that has ATI inside , Stick to Nvidia i say some people are bound to disagree i say as i find ATI no way Pete . -- Opensuse 10.3 x86_64 (Linux is like a wigwam no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside.) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
does anyone have any experience with the new Radeon 4770? How does it work under linux/opensuse? I want to buy one, but only if it goes well without problem.
Thanks, -- Eszter
Hi .
If you read the archives you will see there is a lot of problems with ATI cards ok if all you want is 2D but 3D is another bag of worms entirley i have a laptop lumbered with an ATI card and it is the first and last machine i will purchase that has ATI inside , Stick to Nvidia i say some people are bound to disagree i say as i find ATI no way
I can second that. I have both ATI and nVidia cards. ATI has been nothing but trouble... real trouble. I refuse to buy another one... nVidia on the other hand, I've had many of them, and helped friends set up Linux on their computers with nVidia cards and all simply just worked. The binary drivers are good... they are fairly easy to install, even if you use the downloaded manual install method over the repository drivers. There is at least one ATI "expert" here who has a LOT of experience fighting his ATI cards (search the archives for "david new ati release" and you'll find a long thread discussing the ATI drivers). He posts a lot of reports on successes and failures... more failures and problems he's encountered than anything else unfortunately... his suggestions are quite helpful though, and have helped me prevent baldness while fighting my own ATI card setup. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sat, 23 May 2009 20:17:03 +0200, Clayton
Hi .
If you read the archives you will see there is a lot of problems with ATI cards ok if all you want is 2D but 3D is another bag of worms entirley i have a laptop lumbered with an ATI card and it is the first and last machine i will purchase that has ATI inside , Stick to Nvidia i say some people are bound to disagree i say as i find ATI no way
I can second that. I have both ATI and nVidia cards. ATI has been nothing but trouble... real trouble. I refuse to buy another one... nVidia on the other hand, I've had many of them, and helped friends set up Linux on their computers with nVidia cards and all simply just worked. The binary drivers are good... they are fairly easy to install, even if you use the downloaded manual install method over the repository drivers.
There is at least one ATI "expert" here who has a LOT of experience fighting his ATI cards (search the archives for "david new ati release" and you'll find a long thread discussing the ATI drivers). He posts a lot of reports on successes and failures... more failures and problems he's encountered than anything else unfortunately... his suggestions are quite helpful though, and have helped me prevent baldness while fighting my own ATI card setup.
Thank you very much. This doesn't sound good. I had an ATI card before, it was a mess, I always bought nvidia cards (before and) after that. But 4770 is very good according to the tests and I wanted to buy one... Though it has to run under linux, and I won't use win even for this :( Thanks, -- Eszter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 23 May 2009, peter nikolic wrote:
On Saturday 23 May 2009, Cseri Eszter wrote:
Hi all,
does anyone have any experience with the new Radeon 4770? How does it work under linux/opensuse? I want to buy one, but only if it goes well without problem.
Thanks, -- Eszter
Hi .
If you read the archives you will see there is a lot of problems with ATI cards ok if all you want is 2D but 3D is another bag of worms entirley i have a laptop lumbered with an ATI card and it is the first and last machine i will purchase that has ATI inside , Stick to Nvidia i say some people are bound to disagree i say as i find ATI no way
Yep.. Gotta disagree. I've got three machines including a laptop with ATI. All work quite nicely in 3d. Don't know what I did, but they work. This one has a 4670 and is great. On the one machine I've got with an onboard nvidia card, the darn thing won't even boot. Gets to the point of setting the card, and just locks up. I haven't really worked on it a lot, but I'll get it eventually. It's all in the approach you take. Sometimes the latest and greatest isn't the best for whatever you are running. Mike -- Powered by SuSE 11.0 Kernel 2.6.25 KDE 3.5 Kmail 1.9 8:30pm up 23:03, 3 users, load average: 2.01, 2.12, 2.31 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Yep.. Gotta disagree. I've got three machines including a laptop with ATI. All work quite nicely in 3d. Don't know what I did, but they work. This one has a 4670 and is great.
Are you using the radeon driver or the fglrx driver? When you say 3D is working nicely are you referring to... compiz? or say... gaming... or MythTV (which is horrible on my ATI card)? I have set up about a dozen systems with ATI, and for window manager/desktop, they worked... but then again, an Intel950G works too. As soon as I tried to run MythTV, or anything that was OpenGL...then the problems started. Oh, another issue with ATI.. they drop all support for cards that are not very old. Each driver release seems to strip off yet another card. If you've got a very recent card, you are OK with driver support, but a card that is only a couple years old will likely be EOL as far as the driver is concerned... this was discussed recently on the mailing list too. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Yep.. Gotta disagree. I've got three machines including a laptop with ATI. All work quite nicely in 3d. Don't know what I did, but they work. This one has a 4670 and is great.
Are you using the radeon driver or the fglrx driver? When you say 3D is working nicely are you referring to... compiz? or say... gaming... or MythTV (which is horrible on my ATI card)? fglrx. On all three. But two are older machines and I never updated
On Saturday 23 May 2009, Clayton wrote: them. This one has the 4670 which is relatively new and supported. I have run compiz on it. I don't do games, nor any sort of TV on it. I do watch movies and all play fine.
I have set up about a dozen systems with ATI, and for window manager/desktop, they worked... but then again, an Intel950G works too. As soon as I tried to run MythTV, or anything that was OpenGL...then the problems started. Knock on wood, but I haven't had any trouble with them so far.
Oh, another issue with ATI.. they drop all support for cards that are not very old. Each driver release seems to strip off yet another card. If you've got a very recent card, you are OK with driver support, but a card that is only a couple years old will likely be EOL as far as the driver is concerned... this was discussed recently on the mailing list too.
Now that's I'll agree with. That's the reason I haven't updated the other two machines. One is an older AGP card that I know support for has dropped. Hopefully the Open sourse RadeonHD drive will eventually give some sort of support for the older cards. Until then I'll leave them alone. They work. Mike -- Powered by SuSE 11.0 Kernel 2.6.25 KDE 3.5 Kmail 1.9 9:07pm up 23:40, 3 users, load average: 2.22, 2.23, 2.17 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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