Your problems with ATI sound like mine with nvidia. My interest is in the CAD area, and I like decent 3D acceleration - which it seems to me, to something that the card manufacurers are not willing to provide to their linux users.... Combined with my ignorance of linux this leads to frustration on my part :(
Oh well,,,, Hugh -----Original Message----- From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 11-Jan-05 00:06 To: [email protected] Cc: Subject: Re: FW: [newbie] RE: nVidia -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 10 Jan 2005 12:50, Hugh Dixon wrote: > I have a dual head G450 and it is excellent, but, from the web sites it > appears that matrox development for linux has stagnated (the linux drivers > are beta, and have been that way for over a year..) My problems with nvidia > - I hope are mostly hardware, rather than driver related. > It seems to me that the problems with nvidia cards are rather like the problems with Creative sound cards - models that appear to be the same, aren't, so that they are not as predictable as we would like. I don't play games, so at a pinch I can do without 3D acceleration, though it is a great help for video processing. > My observations are based on what I have read from the manufacturers > support sites. It may just be that ATI cull anything less than > complimentry from their site, while the other manufacturers allow any > ratbag to express their view :) > > Ann, What are the problems with your ATI carded machine? > I'm possibly being unfair, but Mandrake wouldn't load at all with the card in one computer. I changed it to another box, got Mandrake loaded, but when I went to check the graphics configuration it crashed and trashed things so badly that re-installation was the best option. It is running 10.1 now, but without proprietary drivers. I can do without acceleration on that box. Of course, many problems stem from hardware incompatibilities within the system, so maybe it's not the fault of the card, but my experiences were far from happy. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB4n3gkFAvMr/nNX8RAms5AJ9GWUF1zuSPy90eePdfHLWVqnP8IgCeLZev kFp05JOmXTnKAAGgsPWo1dA= =q6ed -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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