Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2747 mails)

[Eberhard Roloff <tuxebi@xxxxxx>]

Jim Flanagan wrote:
> Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> > Jim Flanagan wrote:
> >  
> > > I have an ATI Radeon 9000 AGP card, and am unsure which version of the
> > > ATI driver I should run in opensuse 10.3. The one click method says this
> > > newer version 8.41.7 is good for radeon 8500 and newer. But he ATI site
> > > shows the older version 8.28.8 from Aug 18, 2006 to be the last version
> > > that supports this card. Which one should I install??
> > >
> > >     
> > Neither one.
> > The new version does not support your card.
> >
> > The older one does not support anything higher than xorg 7.1.
> >
> > So you are kind of restricted to either use use the opensource radeon
> > drivers, just like I do with my Radeon 9200 :-((
> >
> > Alternatively you could downgrade to a very old Linux Version with xorg
> > 7.1, but I cannot responsibly advise you to do this.
> >
> > Next time you might go for Nvidia, like I will do. :-)
> >
> > regards
> > Eberhard
> >
> >   
>
> Well.....that's a disappointment. It seems no matter what I do I never
> have the right card for opensuse. I won't spend the money on the new hot
> cards, and the ones that I think are middle of the road, well, are too
> old! I suppose its not opensuse's fault that the ATI driver does not
> support xorg v7.2, and I understand their move forward to new xorg. And
> ATI does not want to re-write an older driver to support xorg 7.2. But
> where does that leave us users?
>
> End of rant.
>
> Many thanks for the help.
>
> Jim F
Well, I understand your feelings. Mine are the same. There was a time
when the general advice was to use ATI over Nvidia when it came to
Linux. At that time I bought my 9200 and it worked nicely then. Even now
the OpenSource Radeon driver is not bad, but it is not up to scratch in
regard to 3D, as well...
I can understand that ATI/Amd makes part of a living out of selling cards.

On the other hand, if we had very old Nvidia cards, we could still use
their legacy drivers with (nearly) any Linux.
If we had Nvidia Cards that are of the same generation as our ATI
boards, we could use the very latest and greatest of their driver offerings.
This is where you learn which card to buy next.

Well. times are changing...

regards
Eberhard

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