Clayton wrote:
I have moved away from ATi cards for a year or so now, and am considering upgrading the card on one box. Before I blindly go out a get an Nvidia card I wanted to check here to see if the situation with the Ati drivers had improved. Does anyone have any recent experiences with these newer card and openSuse, good or bad.
In my experience, ATI proprietary drivers have steadily improved in quality, and for the most part work quite well. I have no problem with them.
The drivers are better, but anything would be better than the mess they were in for so long.
Generally speaking.. for normal desktop use, they do work OK, but there are still a lot of gotchas. For example, there is some weirdness in the driver (even the latest one) that breaks things horribly if you run MythTV. Without tweaking, using an ATI card with MythTV can mean full system lockups at worst, or more often scrambled video when changing channels on a TV tuner, painfully slow menu transitions, and unresponding menus (all happens on my system with the ATI card). This is all known and loads of discussion on the web about it... how to get around some probs.. others you just have to live with.
Personally, I really regret buying a computer with an ATI card (I have a dedicated PC for my MythTV media center).
C.
Thanks to all for the good advise. Sounds like ATI is getting in gear with Linux. I may try one again, depends on what's on sale. Many thanks, Jim F -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org