[Cialug] nvidia/ati

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

I ended up buying a diamond stealth s120 card from Staples that uses the
Radeon 9550 chipset. I downloaded the ati proprietary driver and
installed it. Redhat-config-xfree86, doesn't report the memory correctly
for the vid card -even when using the ATI driver (fglrx), but it appears
to be operating correctly. Secondly, in XF86Config, I added "1680x1050"
to the modes line.

It looks great and works great.


On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 10:23, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 10:12 -0600, Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:
> > I'm doing a flat panel and video card upgrade on my RHEL 3.x WS
> > computer.
> > 
> > I'm currently running a gforce mx4 video card using the nvidia driver
> > with KDE. Its really kind of a *pita* due to the fact whenever you do a
> > kernel update you need to do a driver update.
> > 
> > I'm wondering if I switch to an ATI card can I still get decent X
> > performance using an ATI driver that doesn't have the same pitfalls as
> > the Nvidia drivers? If I buy a new card it will be something common and
> > costing less than $100.00
> 
> I have a ATI Radeon Mobility X600 in my laptop running FC6 with X.org
> 7.1.1 and the stock ATI driver.  I get 50-60 FPS with PPRacer in 800x600
> mode  and around 1900 FPS in glxgears.
> 
> From what I've heard, unless you have the latest and greatest ATI card
> or a really old one you can get decent performance out of them with the
> drivers in recent versions of X.org.  There is also some work going on
> to develop an open-source 3D driver for nVidia cards, but those aren't
> quite ready yet.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
> 
> 
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