On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 17:54 -0800, John Andersen wrote:
The issue was whether ATI cards work with Linux. I know firsthand they do. In fact, I'm running one right now and haven't had a problem with it. Sax should work as well as the ATI cards.
Yes, I understand that. But if he JUST purchased it, its probably new enough to require the proprietary drivers, which are available but Not necessarily bundled. The installation becomes different and somewhat more problematic than you are used to.
Exactly like nVidia. Better even, because it's only the newer cards that need the driver. With nVidia it's *all* their cards, and to make matters worse, they've dropped support for their older cards from the driver.
The ATI cards I have used have worked since SuSE 7.1, but then the chipset is the 7900, not the newer ones.
The ones after 7x00 do work. Load the driver, just like you would do with nVidia, and it will work. The biggest problem seems to be Sax2 having trouble with it. On all my machines it misdetects the screen properties. This is not the driver's fault, I haven't experienced the same problem in other distros. Hans