Hi there,
I need just a little bit of advise on getting a new video card. Unfortunately my Nvidia became toasted and now I can get an Ati X700 se 256Mb bargain.
Unfortunately ati is not giving a comprehensive list about its supported cards under Linux and forwards to the particular Linux forums.
Any recommendation on Ati cards?
Thanx!
Advise on Ati card
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Advise on Ati card
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The ATI proprietary drivers 8.27.10-r1 support the X700 â see the driver release notes http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.8.25.html
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Sorry to hear about the card blowing up. If you have any way to get an Nvidia card again though, I highly suggest it. ATI drivers in Linux are nothing but trouble. I've had so many issues with ATI's binary drivers just locking up the screen randomly, especially with Neverwinter Nights and other games, where it would lock up anywhere from 30 seconds to 40 minutes into playing without warning, causing me to have to use the Magic SysRq Key to shut down and restart.
If at all possible, go for Nvidia. If you don't play many new super graphics intensive games, the open source reverse-engineered ATI drivers are fairly good, in my view. I have them on my laptop and it actually lets me run OpenGL apps, play movies in fullscreen and run ZSNES at a playable rate, unlike ATI's official binary drivers.
If at all possible, go for Nvidia. If you don't play many new super graphics intensive games, the open source reverse-engineered ATI drivers are fairly good, in my view. I have them on my laptop and it actually lets me run OpenGL apps, play movies in fullscreen and run ZSNES at a playable rate, unlike ATI's official binary drivers.
If you have a modern card, the ATI drivers aren't that bad anymore. For anything older than the Radeon 8500 though, forget it, use the ones from the DRI project.
I used to really hate ATI for their shitty drivers but the support is starting to catch up to nvidia's. It's not there yet (between "comperable" ATI and Nvidia cards, the ATI cards get less FPS than the nvidia ones) but it's building speed. They already support the new ABI in Xorg 7.1 (albeit without all the ability to use all the features) and I have gotten better framerates as time has passed.
Overall, I would recommend Nvidia still, though.
I used to really hate ATI for their shitty drivers but the support is starting to catch up to nvidia's. It's not there yet (between "comperable" ATI and Nvidia cards, the ATI cards get less FPS than the nvidia ones) but it's building speed. They already support the new ABI in Xorg 7.1 (albeit without all the ability to use all the features) and I have gotten better framerates as time has passed.
Overall, I would recommend Nvidia still, though.
I was using a Radeon 9700 Pro. And ATI's drivers suck hard core for ATI Mobility cards, which is on my laptop, which is only about 4 years old.Ast0r wrote:If you have a modern card, the ATI drivers aren't that bad anymore. For anything older than the Radeon 8500 though, forget it, use the ones from the DRI project.
ATI Cards
Want a piece of Advice, Go Nvidia. ATI SUCKS.
