[OT]: Video Hardware special - unvetted

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 01:21:11PM -0700, Tyler Aviss wrote:
> Older ATI cards kinda suck for support, although more recently I've
> seen open-source drivers starting to work with DRM (Direct Rendering,
> not rights management).
> 
> My laptop has an HD3200 chipset and it's actually worked quite well
> since AMD took over ATI. ATI regularly updates their drivers,
> sometimes faster than NVidia, and the drivers perform quite well in
> most cases. It does seem that NVidia's GL support is still better in
> various areas though.

So far every interaction with ATI's fglrx drivers involves system lockups,
crashes, failed video init, etc.  Totally pathetic.  No nvidia driver
has ever done that to me.  We have now told IT where I work that we
simply won't accept any new machines with ATI cards in them for the
linux systems.  We have better things to do.

I keep hoping that someday ATI will release enough specs that someone
other than ATI can write an open source driver that work.  I don't ever
expect ATI to do the working driver part.  I have given up hope of that.
They make nice hardware, but they just can't seem to write the drivers
to use it.

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Len Sorensen
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