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. 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 On Monday 05 December 2005 1:08 am, H du Plooy wrote:
On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 21:32 +0000, Peter Onion wrote:
Except... I'm having trouble finding my way to the tools necessary to get the 3D video driver working for my ATI Radeon 9550 video card.
There is a driver on the ATI site, and the "ATI Driver Installer" Version: 8.19.10 worked for me. BTW I have a X800 GTO.
Please post your respective framerates in glxgears and fgl_glxgears - I'm in the market for a card to play Quake4.... :-)
The release notes when I did the upgrade indicated that I could use YOU, but I'm not seeing how that works.
I couldn't find anything there either, but previously I'de used the driver installer on my SuSE 9.2 box so I knew where to look on the ATI site (it's easy to find BTW, just follow the "LINUX DRIVERS & SOFTWARE" link on www.ati.com/support/driver.html
Have a look at this: http://www.susewiki.org/index.php?title=SUSE_10:_ATI_Driver_Installation
Installing the driver for my 9250 (the entrylevel model) using the installer package and this howto was easy. It's on a 32-bit system tho.
Hans