On 2007-02-21, Hamie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> The ati-drivers package was updated from 8.27.10-r1 to 8.32.5.
>> Rolling it back to 8.27.10-r1 made xv work again. The lock up
>> occurred with xorg-xserver versions 1.1.1-r1, 1.1.1-r4,
>> 1.2.0-r1. ati-drivers 8.33.6-r1 also locked up.
On my list of things to do is check to see if 8.28.8 with the
2.6.19 patch works...
> Hmm... My ati-drivers actually crashes the XServer completely.
> And (Usually) restarts (Sometimes kdm just gives up as well).
>
> I did attempt to raise a support request about it... And got
> an email back from ATI/AMD saying I shuld be thankful for what
> they've given me & not to bother them about it...
I was bying ATI cards because the open-source driver supported
DRI (it was a bit flakey, but it mostly "just worked"). But,
that ended with the 92xx series. My experience (and the
general consensus, AFAICT) is that the NVidia closed-source
drivers are far less problematic than the ATI ones.
I've got a 3 year old ATI card that ATI doesn't support at all
anymore with Linux drivers. I've got a 6 year old NVidia card
that still works perfectly and all I had to do is "emerge
nvidia-drivers"
So I think NVidia is the way to go in general.
[The problem is that you don't get much of a choice with
laptops. My IBM ThinkPad was too good a deal to pass up even
though it came with an ATI M300.]
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