John Andersen wrote:
Jim Flanagan wrote:
Greetings all,
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.
Thanks,
Jim F
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.
YMMV
Their installers work better each time, so much so that I do longer use the command line version of their installers.
Jim, What John says has held true up through the last two ati-driver releases. the 8.9 driver works fine. The 8.10 and 8.11 driver suffer from performance issues .. and .. the 8.11 driver will not build on anything later than 10.3 due to missing code. See: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444912 However, these are just the normal growing pains and I would have no hesitation in buying another ATI card for my linux boxes. Currently I have 6 boxes running ATI cards and 4 boxes running nvidia. I'm happy with both cards. I usually just go with whatever gives the most bang for the buck. It's hard to pass up a new 8800GT w/512M for $90 and even harder to pass up a new OEM ATI X800 PE w/256M GDDR3 for $35. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Countdown for openSuSE 11.1 Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 http://counter.opensuse.org/11.1/small Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org