On Thursday 03 April 2008, Jon Pruente wrote:
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 5:19 AM, feba thatl [email protected] wrote:
ATI might work for you; when I tried to use it I got nothing but problems, both on Windows and Linux. The same goes for everyone else I've ever talked to about graphics cards on linux. Nvidia, however, worked out of the box. I'm not going to argue that it's better to be open source when possible; obviously that's the main reason most of us are here; but neither of those companies are very good options yet.
Recent personal experience (Dec/Jan): ATI not so fun, nVidia just worked. I had purchased an ATI HD2400 256MB AGP card for myself,
That card is too new; it's in the "drivers currently in development" category. Up to the X850 are an entirely different story.
It's nice that ATI is going Open, but from what I read about my problem it was likely to be an issue with the AGP controller chip on the card to translate the PCIe native chip to my old system.
What does PCIe have to do with an AGP system?