I am looking to get a new video card. I have used an NVidia with Linux
for a *long* time now. I can't recall when I last bought an ATI card,
at least 6 years or more.
Anyway I want to get some feedback on the current ATI driver state. Are
they stable and pretty easy to use/install? Any problems with games?
How about commercial OpenGL games ported to Linux like Call of Duty and
Doom 3?
I am asking because Newegg has some nice deals on ATI X1600 series
starting at $99 USD:
http://images10.newegg.com/UploadFilesForNewegg/NEemail/promo050706/index.htm
I probably will just go with NVidia. NVidia's Linux support has always
been rock-solid for me and installation is as easy as executing the
NVIDIA script, or using the ebuild with Gentoo.
However, a nice new ATI at those prices is tempting if ATI has gotten
their Linux act together. Do the proprietary ATI Linux drivers have
*all* of the features that the proprietary ATI Windows drivers have?
One thing I like about NVidia's driver is that it is a unified driver
model and the drivers are basically feature for feature identical on the
different oses.
Jim
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