Platoali wrote:
Well, last night the graphic card of my laptop got broken. So I'm
considering to replace it with a workstation for some graphic
applications (Mainly blender and gimp.) I need 3d acceleration, and my
poor laptop was rendering for hours to get my job done. So I decide to
buy a workstation instead a laptop. I want to ask, which graphic cards
are better supported in Linux. I know that ATI have freed or in the
process of freeing their graphic cards driver. But I did not have any
good memory from my previous experience with ATI. My previous card was
ATI radeon 9600m and it never worked the way it had to until broken.
I want to know, what is the current status of ATI drivers in Linux?
Does the problems have been solved? Can they compete with Nvidia?
And I want to know which one is better supported in Linux kernel
regardless of how much open/free the drivers is. I'm currently
thinking between Nvidia Quadro fx 1700 and Ati firegl 5600. Does
anyone have any comment about them?
ATI's drivers have been buggy to the point that I avoid them 100% of the
time when using linux. In multiple systems, using their drivers means
that my system will hard hang 100% of the time when exiting xorg in any
way. Such as logging out, killing xorg, rebooting, etc.
Nvidias drivers are far more stable in linux, I would strongly suggest
going that route. I do not know the specifics of those cards, sorry.
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