On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 01:55, LLLActive@GMX.Net
Well, what do you know, I found a very interesting site for ATI here: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:ATI_drivers
I first installed the 1-click install to get it to work at all. The standard used to be just a blank screen after booting. Once I got it running with the quick and simple 1-click driver, I changed the repo to the one given in the "The Easy Way (GUI)" (linux.ioda.net). I then just installed the fglrx drivers and they replaced the "lesser quality" drivers. Can't say anything yet about the performance, but it looks very good, a top quality display.
I'll get the 8600GT on Friday. I will compare then.
In your "use-case" where you only need the desktop plus apps to work, the ATI card will work just fine until ATI/AMD decide to deprecate that card and remove driver support. This is my pet peeve with ATI cards. I've got 2 computers with ATI... both are small format bookshelf to nettop size with onboard ATI.. older unsupported ATI (and they do not have enough room/slots to install a new/replacement vid card). They work OK using the FLOSS drivers, but I cannot use the HDMI output on either one... the HDMI out simply doesn't work with the FLOSS and 3D support was not very impressive last time I tried it (I think that was openSUSE11.1 time.. maybe it was 11.0). The cards used to work great when the card was supported by the fglrx binary driver... I had full HDMI, OpenGL... everything was awesome... and then it all went away. There was a looooong set of discussions on this mailing list about ATI and getting the fglrx driver working on newer kernels. Anyway, as long as you've got a supported ATI card, or are fine with using the FLOSS drivers (which are getting better all the time), and aren't interested in gaming, then ATI will do OK. :-) C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org