I started off using ATI cards some years back got bored of the rubbish performance and fiddly XF86Config.
I would seriously consider saving a little extra and getting an Nvidia card. The way I see it is that if a vendor can't even be bothered to pay a few programmers to write some drivers (or release the code/docs) then why should we buy their products?.
Fair play, laptops are expensive with half decent nvidia chipsets, but I use my desktop PC (old GEforce 4200ti) for games/work and my laptop (ATI Mach64) for work(?) stuff.
Although the nvidia drivers have successfully broken on every single Fedora release they soon pop out another revision which I think is pretty cool.
Nvidia are alright by me, ATI are stubborn little gits.
P.S does anybody remember back in 1997/1998 when ATI did not own www.ati.com? It was a site run by Artificial Turd Industries (ATI) and specialised in selling (you guessed it!) plastic piles of poo. It took ATI some time to get the domain name sorted.
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Is any ALUGger successfully using ATI radeon cards with real 3d acceleration these days?
I recall it being a fruitless exercise in the past, but now isn't the past and I wonder if anyone's having any real success with this now.
Buying a graphics card on an almost Dickensian budget, whilst wanting it to be an actual upgrade, I'm considering a low-end Radeon 9600 for 35 quid (after missing out on an nvidia Geforce 6600 for 50).
I'm not convinced of the card's brilliance, but I'm more wondering whether Radeons in general are usable + good yet - it would widen the breadth of choice a little :)
On the leisure side, I'd like to still be able to play a few good fps titles (which I can already do on a much cheaper card, just not in as meaningful a way as I'd like :D ) and will be buying doom 3 soon.
My personal exp. has led me to think of nvidia as the only grown-up option.
Am I wrong yet?