[ale] ATI closed source graphics drivers

[James Sumners]

No. The answer is as simple as that. The NVidia supplied drivers
outclass ATi's by a very wide margin. The ATi drivers are getting
better but they are still a pain to get working and then even to use
(don't switch out of you X session). The ATi drivers are geared toward
the Radeon line 8500 and up. They will not work with the laptop cards
unless you have very specific Radeon models. Just save yourself some
headache and skip over ATi for Linux right now.

On 5/7/05, Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:
> ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> > On Saturday May 07 2005 00:07, Dow Hurst wrote:
> >
> >>Do the ATI driver work as well as the Nvidia one?  I don't have an ATI
> >>based machine to try on.  It would sure make choosing a laptop easier
> >>for me or recommending one for others.  I just need to be able to
> >>recommend hardware accelerated OpenGL based performance on a laptop but
> >>don't want a 10lb monster.
> >>Thanks,
> >>Dow
> >
> >
> > Yes. I found that ATI drivers have great performance AND there are no hoops to
> > jump through to get them installed. Distros like Suse even ship with drivers
> > that can be configured simply by clicking with the mouse.
> 
> But Suse does not ship the ATI provided drivers.  I thought that was
> what Dow was asking , but then, I've not had but one cup of coffee thus
> far...
> 
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> Until later, Geoffrey
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