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Re: [PLUG] The state of ATI vs. nVidia on Linux
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So my initial assessment was basically correct. ATI, in spite of their
recently-released specs, is currently a huge pain in the ass to get
working under Linux. nVidia, if you don't mind the binary blob, works
much better. RadeonHD driver is currently improving, but not really
useful for what I want.
I didn't mention Intel graphics because they aren't a choice for me. I
do have them in my eee 901, and they work great with it. However, since
I decided to go Core i7, no mobos in my area of interest have integrated
graphics.
--Gordon
Roman Stanchak wrote:
> As much as I'd like to recommend AMD, ATI graphics are a world of
> pain. In mid Feb. I picked up an AMD 740G based motherboard with
> integrated graphics - a summary of my experiences:
>
> * Most of the live cds I tried gave me a blank or garbled display
> (Hardy, Suse, Arch, Sabayon, Gentoo).
> * Intrepid worked out of the box with the open-source radeon driver,
> but no OpenGL, XVideo or RandR support.
> * fglrx (the ATI binary driver) in the Intrepid repo had horrible 2D
> performance (like, delays scrolling in an xterm)
> * radeonhd driver (the alternative open-source driver) didn't recognize the 740G
> * fglrx 9.3 (released in March) was finally OK
>
> Things went downhill again when I upgraded to Jaunty yesterday:
> * fglrx 9.3 doesn't support Jaunty's version of Xorg
> * open-source radeon driver gives a garbled display
> * fglrx 9.4 removed support for the 740G.
> * The VESA driver worked up to 1280x1024, but not 1680x1050
>
> Ugh. After spending half the day bungling through the radeonhd driver
> source code, I managed to patch it sufficiently to get a usable
> display. On one hand, I'm really annoyed I had to resort to this, but
> on the other, I'm pretty happy that this code was available and I now
> have a working display.
>
> My next graphics card/chipset will almost definitely be Nvidia or Intel.
>
> --Roman
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