Lennart Sorensen wrote: >So far from what I have read the support for ATI chipsets isn't doing >that well. That counts both the motherboard chipsets and the video >chips (unless you are lucky enough to have one of the video chips the >ati binary driver actually works with). > >I didn't know the Turion came in 64bit, I thought they were limited to >32bit mode. I guess they changed that. > > There is the 64-bit now. The only thing that sucks is most of the AMD notebooks come with the crappy ATI chipsets.
>I still believe the general recomendation stands: Don't buy ATI to run >Linux at this time. > > I've been bitten by both ATI *and* nVidia. My recommendations would be, 1. Stay away from ATI video cards - no Linux or crap Linux support. nVidia has very good Linux support (and binaries in Debian help too :) 2. Stay away from nVidia *and* ATI mobo chipsets. I got an nForce2 chipset thinking it was supported quite well since it is quite old now. Well, think again. Sometimes the IDE went on IRQ 7 and crapped out. Sometimes it goes on IRQ 14 and works good. There are weird IRQ 7 interrupts, with nothing on it. irq 0: 345254399 timer irq 12: 1 irq 1: 2 irq 14: 2178080 ide0 irq 3: 1 irq177: 39570708 ohci_hcd, eth2 irq 5: 424 parport0 [3] irq185: 138546 ohci_hcd, NVidia nFo irq 7: 1268244 irq193: 2 ehci_hcd irq 9: 0 acpi irq201: 1390067 eth0 irq 10: 1 irq209: 81958 eth1 irq 11: 1 So, for 3D and other video stuff, I would highly recommend nVidia. For AMD mobo chipsets I would recommend VIA since I *never* had any compatability problems with all the way from KV133 and KT133A until today's K8 chipsets. Good, proven and reliable. 5% performace "increase" of what ATI or nVidia claim is 0% performance if the hardware is not supported. For Intel chips, Intel chipsets are very well supported in Linux. - Adam PS. SiS and other "generics" are generally ok, but check the support in the kernel first. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
