On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:57:24 -0800, Peter Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Keith Gable wrote: > >>From personal experience, I can say this: > > DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE GET AN ATI CARD. > > Just to satiate my curiosity, why do you say this? I'm planning on purchasing > a > Sapphire Radeon 9250 that I found on NewEgg because of the Free Software > driver > support (X.org and DRI). Were your troubles with ATi proprietary driver?
My problems were with the ATI binary driver. It is the biggest piece of crap on the planet. It fails when initing in 32 bit color (so none of my games work in Cedega, and very few native games work [they do the logical comparison of 24 != 32, even though it's the same number of colors -- 2^8 + 2^8 + 2^8 vs 2^32, discarding the difference]). Overall, the driver really really sucked. And I am very, very happy that the nice folks in open source have a driver for the R2xx series cards, because if they didn't, I would not have been on Linux as long as I have (their drivers piss me off to no end, poor support from them, and so on). I was very happy with the "radeon" driver from X.org, but it didn't export some of the advanced GL stuff (like vertex shaders), so I couldn't play some of the games that I like (1942/DC/DC Final being the main one). But if you're not going to do much Windows game emulation, an ATI is definitely okay. But if you're going to even attempt using Cedega, I urge you to run far far away from ATI. > > Thanks. > -- > () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, > /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. > --------------------------------------------------- > Peter A. Gordon (codergeek42) > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > GPG Public Key ID: 0x109DBECE > GPG Key Fingerprint (SHA1): > E485 E2F7 11CE F9B2 E3D9 C95D 208F B732 109D BECE > Encrypted and/or Signed correspondence preffered. > GPG Public Key available upon request or from > pgp.mit.edu's public key server. > --------------------------------------------------- > > > -- "Microsoft is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems." -- Linus Torvalds -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
