On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 16:18, Sebastian Siebert
I have experienced the same story with NVIDIA in the past (ago 3-4 years). This was the reason that I switched to AMD graphics card. I have not regretted it.
I have a ATI Radeon 3870 in my computer. It works with the radeon driver (depended of used kernel version, but sometimes not really good) or the proprietary ATI Catalyst Display Driver from AMD (That is currently a better choice).
There is also one other reason to buy an AMD graphics card. ;-) I am the openSUSE Packaging Script Maintainer for ATI Catalyst and a intensive beta tester of ATI Catalyst Driver for next versions since November 2010 and have a direct contact with AMD. I like to mediate between openSUSE user and AMD, if any problems arise with the driver. I help the user in setting up the graphics card, but often is not necessary. It is easy to install on openSUSE.
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:ATI_drivers
Everyone gets the graphics card, which he deserves. ;-)
One thing to keep in mind... if you're a gamer and/or like to play games in Wine, ATI is nothing but a headache and then some. The vast majority of games that work perfect in Wine using nVidia cards fail in odd ways on ATI cards. Of course, if you're not a gamer, it's not so much of an issue. I've had nothing but trouble with ATI, but that's been with the older card models. If you want an idea of the scope of the problems with ATI cards, look back in the list history here with the detailed emails (from David Rankin) of the significant issues encountered with ATI dropping binary driver support for cards, and the problems getting cards working... the discussions were late 2009, and early 2010. Yah, I know, a long time ago, and drivers change, but it's well worth the dig through the archive to get an idea of the pain people have had with ATI. I've got a couple computers with ATI video (can't remember the model numbers.. it's been a while since I used them), and ATI dropped binary driver support for the cards... last openSUSE release that worked on install with the video card was 11.0, and 11.1 with workarounds provided by David Rankin. The cards do work with the FLOSS drivers, but I can't get any performance out of them... that means video playback is next to useless... HDMI doesn't work... Flash is nothing sort of terrible... as a result the computers are stuck either running Windows where the native Windows drivers work fine, or stuck in storage... they are both in storage... replaced by a machine with Intel video. I actually get significantly better performance out of the Intel 3150 video card than I did with the ATI card. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org