On Tuesday 14 June 2005 17:14, M. Todd Smith wrote:
Mike,
The default install of Suse 9.2 (I don't know about 9.3) will recognize ATI cards but will not give any 3d performance whatsoever.
And nVidia does? If so, why do folks always talk about downloading the nvidia drivers via yast.
I've done the install about 25 times now on several different types of machines. Across the board no 3d performance.
ATI makes horrible linux drivers that give half the performance of the equivalent Windows ones. Their support and performance under OpenGL doesn't seem to be half of what it is for DirectX. I'm dissapointed by them daily.
The latest one seems to be getting there. I'm not saying it's the best, but I don't equate things with Windows. I don't have windows. It's not an option. The one computer in the house that does run windows still has a 16meg 3dfx card in it. ;-) The wife doesn't play games..
The radeon driver is installed by default, and while this is compatible with my cards, it is not the driver that offers the best performance (the fglrx driver is, which has to be downloaded from ATI's website and installed). Getting 3d to work is a cumbersome exercise, and should be quite easy, it isn't. I've been working with linux for over 10 years and it still took my two days to get 3d running.
Yes, the radeon driver is installed by default. So is the nv driver if that's the card you have. You still have to download the proprietary driver. It's just a bit harder with ATI as it isn't supported in Yast yet. But it's there on the suse ftp site, and takes about 5 minutes here to download and install. Then I can at least play tuxracer, and most of the openGL screensavers work. Other than that this is a work computer. Mike -- Powered by SuSE 9.3 Kernel 2.6.11 KDE 3.4.0 Kmail 1.8 For Mondo/Mindi backup support go to http://www.mikenjane.net/~mike 6:44pm up 3 days 4:24, 4 users, load average: 2.42, 2.56, 2.70