David, indeed old ati card are well supported, new ati card are almost no supported. 2009/6/17 David Rosenstrauch <darose@xxxxxxxxxx> > Are you referring to old ATI cards? Or new ones? > > Dunno ... I've used a number of ATI cards, and haven't had problems. I'm > currently using a laptop with a ATI Mobility Radeon 9000, and a > desktop/server with a ATI Radeon 9200 SE - both without incident. > > DR > > > Dwight Schauer wrote: > >> I have to agree, ATI is big no no if you want a decent workstation >> setup. I've tried a whole lot to use ATI instead of Nvidia but it just >> never pans out. I've wasted a lot of money and a whole lot of time on >> ATI cards and just end up ripping the card out and putting in an >> Nvidia one. I don't even use my computers for gaming, that is not the >> issue at all with the video card. I just want something stable that >> just works. I've researched what to buy as far as what is well >> supported, tried both the free radeon and radeonhd drivers, and tried >> the proprietery fglrx ones many times and really tried to come up with >> working solutions. If you don't need X, than an ATI card will be fine. >> Going Nvidia might not be the most "idealistic" route, but it is by >> far the least amount of hassle in my opinion. >> >> >> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Ricardo Hernandez<ricardoh26@xxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >> >>> ATI noooooo!!! hehe. As commented above i'm almost 100% sure you'll have >>> troubles. At least in my case, ATI 4850, i cannot use X at all. ATI has >>> no >>> support for kernel 2.6.29 yet and arch have a patch for that but it does >>> not >>> work for some card, for example my card. Xorg didn't recognize mi card >>> even >>> with the fglrx driver. >>> >>> Sooo...my recomendation, again as above, buy nvidia. I read you don't >>> like >>> nvidia but is a more serious company at least in support and driver >>> updates. >>> >>> I sell mi ati card and buy a XFX 9800 GT. Is a little less power but it >>> works a lot better and have no problem. >>> >>> However if you don't mind 3d acceleration for the moment, the radeonhd >>> drivers is a good alternative, and it seems that in kernel 2.6.31 i'll >>> have >>> KMS support. >>> >>> -- >>> Ricardo Hernández ( richerVE ) >>> >>> > -- Ricardo Hernández ( richerVE )
