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draculr
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 Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 9:01 am Post subject: ATi with official drivers - how good is it now? |
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| I have not looked at ATi cards in linux for over a year now, I was wondering, If I buy a laptop with an ATi card, how good or bad are the drivers for linux nowdays? Have they reached a similar level to nvidia drivers in terms of ease of install and 3d performance? |
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aypro
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| Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 9:26 am Post subject: |
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well, right now i'm using ati-drivers-8.22.5, and they're working quite well,
i get aroung 5000 fps with "glxgears", and i'm running doom3 with my radeon 9600XT,
the only problem is that sometimes the kernel halts when shuting down the X server  |
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pontusen
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| Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 11:21 am Post subject: |
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well, I'm using the latest ~amd64, and they are superb!
before I had quite a hard time installing the drivers, furthermore I had the same problems with exiting X, now, however, no problems have appeared.
Plus, Since my update, I gained over 1k in glxgears, thus having around 8.5k |
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draculr
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| Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 1:11 pm Post subject: |
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| So, do you just run the setup script, change your XConfig and they work? |
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