I don't have time right now to get the number you requested, but will in a day or two. I would STRONGLY advise against the purchase of an ATI card. While I find performance to be fine, their support of Linux is not nearly as seemless as NVidia. The machine with the ATI card took about 30 minutes to get the video working properly on, and only after some much appreciated help from Joe Morris, also on this list. ========= As always, there are differing opinions about graphics cards. I went
My other machine runs an NVidia card. I upgraded from 9.3 and ran YOU after it was done. One of the choices was to get the NVidia driver. I did it and in about 10 minutes she was up and running.
FWIW, I also do some gaming in Windows (WW II simulations) and have found the ATI performance to be so so. Now, I don't have a comparable NVidia card to stick in the machine to try it, but I was certainly expecting more, based on the advertising.
I'll try to get those numbers to you in the next couple of days.
YMMV -- Bill Lugg Milstar Software Support Peterson AFB, CO ========== Bill not sure what problems you had, most probably trying to install the ATI drivers, but unless you had special needs or just had to have the drivers, it just doesn't take that long to configure an ATI. The ATI cards performance is easily comparable to the nVidia, so I do believe
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 01:14, William H Lugg wrote: through the nVidia fiasco a few times trying to get their drivers to work with different cards without success. There is hardly anyone here that runs a nVidia that hasn't had a problem one time or another with their drivers & cards. ATI simply works and their attitude towards Linux is good. If they weren't Linux friendly, then why are the ATI driver modules included with the kernel already? Setting up ATI in SUSE is just a matter of configuring graphics, either through YaST2 or sax2 from a terminal. The ATI cards just work! Except for the absolute latest models of cards, even those work with 2D, working with 3D is easy. The only time, I've found, that the ATI proprietary drivers need to be installed are when there are dual monitors or TV cards involved. Installing the new ATI drivers seems very painless to me anyway, install an RPM file, run sax2 and have fun. ------------------ the OP would be happy with either. regards, Lee