Nvidia or ATI

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 08:08:52AM -0500, John Myshrall wrote:
> I'm building a new system for my sister in New Brunswick and want to  
> pick the brains of the list. I've had good success with Nvidia based  
> cards/boards but was also considering ATI. It  is my understanding that  
> they have released improved drivers. 
>
> I've checked  the Ubuntu forums and it appears that since Jan 2009 the  
> drivers seem ok. Anyone on the list using them? I'm interested in their  
> hybrid cross fire as well.

My experience with ATI drivers so far is that they suck horribly.

I can't tell if the latest drivers are any better since they discontinued
support for the FireGL V3350 cards we were using in some machines at work
(where they were a pain to get going at all).  So we now have cards which
have no drivers that work with 2.6.32 kernel.  The answer so far has
been to replace them with nvidia cards, which has solved all the hassles.
Unfortunately ATI doesn't seem to have any 'legacy' drivers that are
maintained for "old" cards the way nvidia does, so I guess those 2 year
old cards are now junk.  That unfortunately matches entirely with my
past experience of service and support from ATI, so I am not surprised
(unfortunately).

I really do hope someday there will be opensource drivers for many ATI
cards because ATI certainly has never been able to do the job.  Their
hardware design and quality is great.  It's a shame about the software
and support part.

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Len Sorensen
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