Alex Launi on 3 Jan 2008 21:51:36 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] Which video card to use?


I have awesome performance with the free radeon driver. Much better than my nVidia box, and the nvidia card is significantly more powerful.

On Jan 3, 2008 7:08 PM, Julien Mills < julienfmills@yahoo.com> wrote:
"Adam J. Zion" < azion1995@verizon.net> wrote:

> My Frankenputer currently has a nVidia Riva 128 (using Ubuntu's nv driver). I
> also have Radeon 7200 card which I could install. Which of these cards is
> faster for X-Org?

I could never get that ATI driver from ATI to work, it froze my machine when
I used calc or when the screen saver kicked in.  It did look good when it
wasn't frozen.   I ended up using the ati driver supplied by xorg.  It works
fine, I get 1440 x 900 (I think) but my glgears (is that it?) is slow,
around 220.  I'd try the nVidia.

Julien

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