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Originally posted by Kano View PostMaybe check your ram in the time you don't emerge something
One thing I didn't try right now is downgrade to X.Org 7.3 and Catalyst 8.4. That was the last time I used Catalyst (it was working, but I had a different GPU).
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Originally posted by tmpdir View PostYeh i considering something similar. Think i will go for a mainboard with integrated geforce 9300... its just not worth my time to go with an ati board.
Originally posted by kir? View PostI was interested in buying a radeon 4870 or 4850 but after seeing that ATI is still a huge problem, I will take care of my nvidia 7300 GT (that just works).
Still I don't think "ATI is still a huge problem". It's some people (on the last two pages it's actually one person only) reporting problems. I mean who write in fora most of all? People with problems. And if you just compare this thread to previous months, this one is absoultely silent. On the contrary most ppl here have been reporting "best driver in months". And I can just back that from the debate on the ArchLinux forum. Majority of people with problems report it's working now with 8.11. The buggy install scripts are a pain, yes.
What I find more disturbing though is the slow adaption to other vital packages - mainly the kernel and X. Support for a new kernel or xorg-server only two months after release is just way too late. Support for 2.6.28 should be in the driver already now so people with a ATI card can check out rc's. But I fear we won't even see this in the Catalyst 8.12 - with the new kernel having been released already by then.
My point just is, ATI is so crappy and there are so many good alternatives? NV's performance and support quality for linux we were used to (had a nv6200 until 6 months ago) have been decreasing since the 8 series. And installation? Overwriting half of the xserver making the whole system unusable after an update of the later until you uninstall nvidia, re-install xorg-server and then nvidia again. That's extremely user-friendly compared to ATI, of course. Or take an Intel chipset with the already hardly existing 3D acceleration having no support from the drivers at all.
I'm tired of coming to the forum and every second day reading a new "ATI is so crappy, become better for me" thread. At the moment we all have to make sacrifices on linux. There is no perfect solution. Crying out loud and writing hatred threads/posts doesn't help noone.
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just look here:
performance problems, performance problems, artifacts, font corruption:
(with class 7 gpu ....)
GeForce 6600: broken font display (Antialias?) (177.xx):
so nvidia's drivers are better? I don't think so. They were. 12 month ago. And even back then a lot of people had severe problems.
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Originally posted by energyman View Postso nvidia's drivers are better?
They were. 12 month ago.
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Originally posted by falloutboy View Postfinally, i got the driver working. My mainboard has 128mb sideport memory for onboard graphic. If i set the uma framebuffer size to 128mb (minimum) in bios, i get the heap manager bug. If i increase it to 256mb, everything runs fine.
thank you!!!!
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