Linux has driven me to buy Windows Vista

[Tyler Aviss]

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 11:57:12AM -0500, Tyler Aviss wrote:
>> Actually I had an overall question/theory about this. Can anyone
>> confirm or correct me on this...
>>
>>
>> I believe that one of the issues with Cedega VS windows is that NVidia
>> cards have better OpenGL support, and Cedega translates the applicable
>> DirectX calls to the appropriate OpenGL ones (which in the case of ATI
>> might not work as well if the GL support is lacking)? Since ATI has
>> been bought out by AMD their drivers have (IMHO) improved greatly
>> though, and according to slashdot they've open-sourced their drivers
>> as well, so hopefully things will be even better in the future
>>
>> http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/30/0337204
>
> They might have improved but they still aren't great.
>
> Having installed a few ATI video cards at work recently I was rather
> surprised to find that:
>
> The fglrx driver crashes (and takes the machine with it) if you don't
> explicitly tell it to use 24bit colour in the xorg.conf file.
> Apparently by default it wants to use 8bit, and it also happens to not
> support 8bit (says so in the crash log), and rather than exiting with
> that message, it crashes.
>
> Strangely every other driver I have ever used with xorg defaults to
> 24bit colour, and none of them crash either.  They may fail to run and
> exit with an error, but they don't crash.
>
> So until the day there are full open specs for the ATI cards and someone
> other than ati writes a driver from scratch, I just wouldn't bother.
> Clearly ATI still can't write drivers.
>

Well, according to the slashdot article I linked there are open specs
now, so hopefully good Open-Source drivers will follow.

As for the crashing, what card was it, and did you try updating your
xorg.conf with the "aticonfig" command?



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