> ATI's support for Windows is crap, Linux is pathetic > and Solaris is > non-existant. Best advice is to be happy with the 2D > Xorg driver or > upgrade the video card. > > Matthew >
Actually, from our own experience, the Solaris version of the VESA driver is quite decent. We have a couple of ATI XPress 200/300-based notebooks. With Linux (Fedora 6, SuSE 10.1/10.2, Ubuntu 6.xx/7.04), whether running under VESA or ATI's proprietary fglrx driver, after closing the lid, the "video suspend" feature would stop working. The Solaris version of the VESA driver does not have this problem, thus, interesting enough, OpenSolaris has become the primary OS to run these notebooks. Last night I installed SXCE 69 on a desktop and a notebook, which have nVidia and ATI XPress video chips, respectively. I don't see much difference in performance b/t these two machines, but the nVidia desktop is, occasionally, giving me flickering when switching to a different web page. No such flickering problem with the VESA/XPress-based notebook. That said, I will "definitely" stay away from the ATI chipsets until AMD fulfills its promise of open-sourcing their drivers, or delivers drivers for Solaris. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
