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Matt Parker matt@mpcontracting.co.uk wrote:
On Tuesday 06 September 2005 13:32, Ten wrote:
Is any ALUGger successfully using ATI radeon cards with real 3d acceleration these days?
IMO you're better off with a NVidia card since at least the drivers are made by NVidia themselves and offer equal performance to their Windows counterparts.
In some tests run by the mad one^W^Wquinophex, I believe that he actually got *better* performance from the card in linux than windows... And just because a card manufacturer makes the driver doesn't automagically make them "better". I have WiFi cards that work better in linux than they do in windows, and those drivers where mostly fixed by people that *didn't* work for the card manufacturer. (anyways - this is off topic ;)
OK, the NVidia drivers are closed-source which may offend some, but they work and work well.
Offends me quite a lot! Get things like... $ dmesg | grep taint nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. $
tainted kernel :( (on the other hand, it does work ;)
The ATI drivers that are available are a bit hit-or-miss as far as I can tell. They work well with some cards, and not so well with others. You'll need to investigate which cards are supported and which features of those cards are supported as well.
The official ATI linux drivers are made by ATI... there are several open source drivers for various cards, depending on chipset.
I haven't been able to get acceleration going on my IBM Thinkpad R51 (ATI Mobillity Radeon), yet the NVidia drivers work flawlessly on my desktop system (NVidia GeForce 5900). YMMV
Might be worth checking the latest version of x.org, and googling a bit. Also, there's more than one kind of "Mobility Radeon", like GeForce has a model number, so do ATI cards...
Cheers, - -- Brett Parker web: http://www.sommitrealweird.co.uk/ email: iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk