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
If you're planning on doing anything at all that requires 3D acceleration, go with nvidia. I made the mistake of sticking with ati despite everything when I bought my laptop 3 years ago and I regret it every month they release a new driver. I swore off the ati driver this past year because there was always one major thing broken or unsupported and a handful of (usually minor) things fixed each release. Case in point, the latest driver still doesn't support xserver 1.5, which means if you're going to be using opensuse 11.1, you might as well just use the radeon driver because you get the same performance from both. At least until next month, or whenever it is they get around to supporting the latest xserver. I used to be a gamer and most games I've tried didn't work or were rendered so badly they were unplayable. I couldn't even get blender to work properly with some of the releases. Granted my card is an X700 and I'd hope newer cards get better treatment. On the opposite end of the spectrum, I've had practically zero headaches using the radeon driver. It handles 3D acceleration a lot more gracefully than the fglrx driver though it's touch and go when using wine. The only advantage fglrx has over the opensource driver is framerate. Save yourself the trouble - either get a nvidia card or be prepared to use the opensource radeon driver. Nkoli -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org