[ale] Is ATI Linux compatibility good?

[Richard Faulkner]

All that I can tell you is that NVIDIA isn't working worth a darn in
anything past Ubuntu 7.10 (including 10.04).  It was working with early
SuSE 10.1 & 10.2 but ran x64 after that until now.

PS>  7.10 is where I got the xorg file that has me in business today!



On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 13:00 -0400, Björn Gustafsson wrote:
> I'm still working on building my desktop system, and now I think that
> ATI video sounds like a good idea.
> 
> Do the newer distros work well with ATI video cards?  Which ones have
> you tried?  Do you use the advanced effects?
> 
> Any insights would be appreciated.
> 
> On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
> > On 03/27/2010 10:13 AM, William Fragakis wrote:
> >> The proprietary nvidia drivers have been a thorn in my side, too. From
> >> what I can gather, it installs its own versions of opengl libraries
> >> which then wrecks the intel video ability to do on my thin clients (ie
> >> compiz). Trying to run either the nv or nouveau drivers means the thin
> >> clients now work splendidly but the server has a useless desktop. As
> >> it's attached to a nice 22" lcd, that's a total waste.
> >>
> >> Time to chuck these cards on ebay and get some ATIs.
> >
> > Let us know what chipsets you get and how well things work on whatever
> > distro/version/driver combination, if you could please.  That would be
> > awesome.
> >
> > I know that I had to use the proprietary driver on my laptop while I was
> > running Karmic (Ubuntu 9.10), but on Lucid (Ubuntu 10.04-to-be) it works
> > excellently with free software.  It is kind of nice to be running
> > software that I can at least debug if the need arises.  That's been my
> > only problem with NVIDIA.  And it wasn't that bad back when they were
> > responsive to bug reports.  However, it seems that these days, you send
> > them a bug report with their proprietary driver and it winds up going
> > into a black hole somewhere, never to be answered.
> >
> >        --- Mike
>