[ale] help - ATI video card hell

[Lightner, Jeff]

That reminds me of the old IBM PC and XT (yes I'm that old) diagnostics.   They would present you with various screens of video images and ask something like "Is this correct?" for each but had no text to tell you what you should be seeing.   Everybody I ever saw run the diagnostics would say  "how the hell should I know" or something akin to it then simply type "y" to move on to the next test.





-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Ron Frazier
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 3:57 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] help - ATI video card hell

ATI / AMD just happens to be what I originally built the machine around
and have experience with. Also, the mobo supports ATI Crossfire,
although I'm not currently using that. The install procedure I
referenced had a small test procedure that posted a 2" x 2" graphic with
a 3D cube rotating at high speed. Once I finally got the driver
installed, that worked fine. And I'm getting the proper resolution out
of my monitor. Other than that, I can't speak to the quality of the driver.

Sincerely,

Ron

On 11/03/2011 03:46 PM, James Sumners wrote:
> People say the rule I follow has changed in recent years, but
> experiences like yours keeps me convinced otherwise. My rule is "don't
> buy an ATI (now AMD) video card for any machine on which I _might
> ever_ want to run 3D accelerated X11." The drivers are crap. I buy
> nVidia and use nVidia's drivers.
>
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 15:15, Ron Frazier<atllinuxenthinfo at c3energy.com>  wrote:
>
>> If AMD wrote the driver for Linux, why can't they provide a
>> one click (or few click) GUI installer like they do for other OS's?
>> Installing a video card shouldn't take 2 hours of research and procedures.
>>

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