Hello Mirek,
MV> I was wondering how extensive is support for the Ati
> video boards, because I have heard Linux systems such
> as Debian (which I have) do not handle these kind of
> cards very well...
My understanding is that for graphics modes the display
drivers are part of X rather than the underlying operating
system. It's possible that you heard from someone who had a
bad experience trying to configure X. Perhaps the Linux
distribution they tried had poor support for X. I'm not a
Linux user so I couldn't say.
What I can say is that I've had great experience with ATI
cards. We had some Zenith machines that came with ATI video
including (if I remember rightly) a 486 based machine with
Mach-8 accelleration and a Pentium equivalent with Mach-32.
I was pleased with those, so when the time came to buy a
display adaptor for a new machine I was building, I had no
qualms buying an ATI Xpert98 PCI. It feels lightning-fast
with the X Window system on NetBSD - I'm using the Mach-64
support.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
- Andy Ball.
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