On Monday 04 July 2005 00:03, Bob Sanders wrote: > On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 19:31:42 +0100 > > Tim Igoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Maybe if Linux becomes more mainstream or used in offices more then > > perhaps they might improve the efforts towards the Linux drivers. > > Here is why ATI won't become much better over time - most > of their developers don't use Linux. If you've followed any of the > interviews from ATI and Nvidia, you'll note significant differences. > > ATI has a dedicated team - started at around 5 developers, after they > consolidated their driver teams. This grew to around 15, perhaps > more today. ATI's management controls how much resources get dropped > into Linux via dedicated funding. > > Nvidia has had a lot of internal pressure from their developers as many > run Linux to do development, even for other platforms. Thus they have > more than a dedicated core of driver developers for Linux, they have > hard core Linux using developers. While Nvidia's management would > like to control how much money goes into Linux driver development, they > can't just tell their developers to switch platforms for their core work. > > But that doesn't mean that Nvidia's drivers are golden. They've got a > broken driver with the 6x00 series of cards right now if you are running > 16x10. It works fine with 5200/5900, previous gen cards. And, 1280x768 is > not supported under WinXX or Linux with any version of Nvidia drivers. And > this is with any current version of their drivers - nv (in Xorg), 6629, and > 7664. > > ATI, on the other hand has never considered 16x10, it's not a valid > resolution. They do support 1280x768, but their cards - 9250, seem to die > pretty quickly with heavy 3D use - well, half an hour of UT.
My Ati 9600 in my Inspiron works perfectly in 16:10 with the Ati-drivers. > > > I'm happy with them at the moment, yes there are things that could be > > improved - but aren't there always? :) > > I really tried to not pre-judge them and tried various options using their > cards - Xorg, flgrx, and even went third party - Xig. Simply put - I'll > not be buying any more ATI cards. > > Bob > - -- [email protected] mailing list
