On Friday 29 October 2004 8:28 am, Justin Thiessen wrote:
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 08:18:53AM -0700, Tom Emerson wrote:
well, after seeing several posts to the effect that ATI doesn't have 64 bit drivers while nvidia does, it seems it is time to switch alliances ;)
Have you checked out the latest version of the open source driver? Radeons up to the 9200 are supported.
I hadn't though of that, though I would have thought this would be the type of thing that SuSE would package with their distro -- after all, I supposedly /have/ 3D support out-of-the-box with SuSe 9.1, but I'm seeing evidence that this support is [perhaps] "a little lacking". [most notably: the frame rate in UT2k4's "tricky" map is hideous whenever the view includes flames!] But, back to the suggestion: after reading it a bit, however, I see that these use Xorg instead of XFree86 -- how "involved" is the changeover? [or does the new 9.2 release use Xorg, so perhaps going the "official" upgrade route would be easier?] Tom p.s. I did find some links from the DRI page that lead me to a comparison table, so at least I know the guy at Fry's wasn't that far off [seems the ATI 9000 falls between an nvidia 5200 and 5500, which is "good to know"]