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kritoke

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From: Texas, USA

Registered: 2003-08-01

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How are ATI drivers in Linux?

I have been running mainly my nvidia cards and their decent proprietary drivers.  How do the ATI drivers compare?  Reason why is because I am debating on upgrading to an ATI card.

Kritoke

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dp

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From: Zürich, Switzerland

Registered: 2003-05-27

Posts: 3,378

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Re: How are ATI drivers in Linux?

i know that

"ATI FireGL 7800 64M" (in a thinkpad) and
"ATI Radeon 9200 128M" (as third graphics adapter on a server besides an old trident3d and a onboard chip)

runs perfectly with "radeon" in the 2.4.23 kernel (but not with 2.4.22 because this kernel has an old gatos-radeon-module)

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phunni

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From: Bristol, UK

Registered: 2003-08-13

Posts: 787

Re: How are ATI drivers in Linux?

Once I got my ATI 2800 pro running (a little bit of work) it's runs beautifully.  IMHO ATI offer better value for money than Nvidia in terms of the power available

LB06

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From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 435

Re: How are ATI drivers in Linux?

Has anyone compared ATI's proprietary drivers with the OpenSource radeon module?

DanEE

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From: Fribourg, Switzerland

Registered: 2003-07-10

Posts: 43

Re: How are ATI drivers in Linux?

Someone made some benchmarks between the different ATI-Drivers for Linux:
http://homepage.hispeed.ch/rscheidegger … oct03.html

I'm using the binary drivers from ATI (without even testing the others). I'm quite happy with them!

dp

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From: Zürich, Switzerland

Registered: 2003-05-27

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Re: How are ATI drivers in Linux?

Has anyone compared ATI's proprietary drivers with the OpenSource radeon module?

well, call me lazy, but i'm content with the kernel-builtin radeon (2.4.23) ... it renders in celestia and stellarium fast (... maybe when i come to more complicated games than bzflag or tuxracer, i will have a look at something "binary") :-)

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Xentac

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From: Victoria, BC

Registered: 2003-01-17

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Re: How are ATI drivers in Linux?

I play ET with no problems using the xfree86 distributed radeon drivers.

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phunni

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From: Bristol, UK

Registered: 2003-08-13

Posts: 787

Re: How are ATI drivers in Linux?

Has anyone compared ATI's proprietary drivers with the OpenSource radeon module?

well, call me lazy, but i'm content with the kernel-builtin radeon (2.4.23) ... it renders in celestia and stellarium fast (... maybe when i come to more complicated games than bzflag or tuxracer, i will have a look at something "binary") :-)

how do you get the buitin modules to work?  I have recompiled my kernel and also compiled radeon as a module, but can't now figure out how to get X (x.org) to use that driver - I currently don't have direct rendering...