Until ATI wakes up and smells the plants, do NOT buy anything with an ATI chip on it. They are a disgrace. I think they hired some 8yr olds to code their proprietary driver, and then have never supported it. Once the gaming industry starts to leak into the Linux community, and they start to feel it in their bank account, they will get their act together. Until then, hit them where it counts, dont buy an ATI card. The Linux support for anything ATI is just horrid. NVidia isnt much better, but at least their driver works.
Justin Hart wrote: >I, humbly, must disagree. > >ATI's drivers have been far behind. The Radeon drivers, rather than >the fglrx ones, fall short on many fronts. The ATI fglrx drivers, >have been behind since I got this card. You still can't run composite >and dri together. > >Buying an ATI card for a Linux box is not a good decision. Go with >nVidia, at least their drivers work. I've thought of buying an nVidia >card for this notebook for months because, frankly, ATI hasn't been >taking care of the matter, and won't in the forseeable future. > >Justin > >On 6/29/05, Rafael Fernández López <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>El Jueves 30 Junio 2005 00:20, XXOmega21XX escribió: >> >> >>>--- Benjamin Fritzsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>>On Friday 28 January 2005 03:19, Rui Silva wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>hello ppl >>>>> >>>>>i'm thinking on buying a new notebook computer. >>>>> >>>>>the model i'm interested has a ATI 9700 128Mb >>>>> >>>>> >>>>graphic card. R300 based >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>How are the drivers for this graphic card?? >>>>> >>>>>Is ATI LInux driver good enough?? i'm not going to >>>>> >>>>> >>>>play games. just >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>the aplications commonly used. >>>>> >>>>>What about video out?? does it work?? >>>>> >>>>>the instalation is smooth or not?? >>>>> >>>>>share your experiences please, help me decide >>>>> >>>>> >>>>For Desktop Use you´ll be perfectly happy with Xorg >>>>radeon drivers. They work >>>>perfectly here on an Inspiron 8600 (Radeon 9600 Pro >>>>Turbo, which is the same >>>>chip with a lower frequency AFAIK). >>>> >>>>You´ll get: Video-Out support (Including Clone, >>>>Xinerama and ext. only), >>>>Dynamic Clock frequency, Working Hibernate/Suspend >>>>to Ram (With >>>>hibernate-script and vbetool). >>>> >>>>Basically everything works except DRI and TV-Out. >>>>(Which work with the >>>>ATI-Drivers). >>>> >>>>Feel free to contact me if you run into troubles. >>>>I´ll happily share my >>>>xorg.conf. >>>> >>>>Benny >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>-- >>>>gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list >>>> >>>> >>>Hi. I have a similar question. >>>My Laptop (Toshiba Satellite A70) >>>does have SVideo Out, and I really need that to work. >>>I saw on the ATI site that their propriatary Linux >>>drivers were not for notebooks. Is that true, and >>>is there an extra package (open source) I could >>>emerge for Open Source support on SVideo? >>>For the record, its an ATI Mobility Radeon 9000. >>> >>>Thanks!!! >>> >>> >>>__________________________________________________ >>>Do You Yahoo!? >>>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >>>http://mail.yahoo.com >>> >>> >>Well, I do own a Fujitsu-Siemens AMILO with ATI RADEON 9700 and IT DOES WORK >>PERFECTLY with ati-drivers, so I think that it works with laptops... >> >>Bye. >> >>-- >>"You know you're brilliant, but maybe you'd like to understand what you did 2 >>weeks from now." - Linus Torvalds >> >>Gentoo GNU/Linux. >> >> >> >> >> > > > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
