On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 5:19 AM, feba thatl febaen@gmail.com 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, and it just wouldn't work in Linux with the ATI Catalyst drivers. It also had a very hard time getting up in Windows (I went so far as to install a 30-day trial of Vista, just to see if it was the hardware failing after trying for so long in Linux). I returned the card to MicroCenter and purchased a 7600GS 256MB AGP card, which I dropped in and Ubuntu found the binary drivers for and just started working. Vista picked it up too, but Vista was only a memory soon after... I didn't have the spendy for anything faster from nVidia, but it was going in my P4 AGP machine, so anything faster would be pretty much a waste.
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.
Jon.