since ati has the linux drivers for my video card(ati radeon 9200), does that mean it can run all the eye candy and stuff?
thanks for your help.
TheNNS 112 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso
John A 1,896 Vampirical Lurker Team Colleague
Yup.
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
it doesnt work for my x600 :(
John A 1,896 Vampirical Lurker Team Colleague
Perhaps you misconfigured your drivers? It seems like ATI's got full support for it on their driver page.
DimaYasny 180 Godmode enabled Team Colleague Featured Poster
I'm no ATI expert, but isn't x600 a simple card, without a serious accelerator?
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
it plays farcry just fine
DimaYasny 180 Godmode enabled Team Colleague Featured Poster
whatever farcry is ;) I'm not a gamer mate :)
what we use here is NVIDIA Quadro 1500 mostly, because they are much better than anything ATI-made for our kind of graphics - high volume 3D COP processing
TheNNS 112 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso
That rocks, thanks guys.
Who needs vista when you have XGL?
linux rocks
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
farcry is (although FEAR is now becoming more popular) a game used for real life (gaming) benchmarks
card has no probs with games / cad on medium settings so wtf wont it run XGL or Aero!
DimaYasny 180 Godmode enabled Team Colleague Featured Poster
bash/ksh/csh man, everything else is eye-candy :)))
TheNNS 112 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso
i've had so many porblems with my ati card, i love nvidia.
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
bash/ksh/csh man, everything else is eye-candy :)))
i like mc. it reminds me of the DOS shell of my childhood
John A 1,896 Vampirical Lurker Team Colleague
>i've had so many porblems with my ati card, i love nvidia.
That's rather odd, although Nvidia tends to be higher-end than ATI, it seems that they have more vertex shader problems than ATI. I've seen several programmers complain that their vertex shaders look great on ATI cards, but turn into "polygon soup" on Nvidias.
TheNNS 112 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso
I've just never been able to work well with linux on an ait, but nvidia just works so well.
DimaYasny 180 Godmode enabled Team Colleague Featured Poster
i like mc. it reminds me of the DOS shell of my childhood
you mean it reminds you of Norton Commander/Volkov Commander? ;)
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
no, the ms dos shell with its lovely blue colour scheem.
TheNNS 112 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso
anybody tried freedos? i can't even download it because there's too much traffic.
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
I dont like it. Has anyone tried the Windows XP Powershell by the way?
Imagine BASH for XP. Thats basically it. It rocks, full scripting support and most POSIX commands work.
TheNNS 112 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso
it's pretty cool, i tried it and it works well.
alienlinux 3 Junior Poster in Training
ATI are crap when it comes to Linux support, and I don't say that lightly, I'm a die hard 3DFX user and I still hate Nvidia for shelving the company, but even I have had to change all my cards to Nvidia because the drivers are buggy. just ask the developers of video players what graphics card is best and they'll say Nvidia. i don't know their current stance, but mplayer hated anyone even asking for support if they were using ati lol
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
I have a radeon x800 and i have full linux support
alienlinux 3 Junior Poster in Training
I have a radeon x800 and i have full linux support
your lucky, what gets me mad about them is they dropped support from <9600 even though directx10 had hardly even come out
why is that then? not that the 9200 can't handle any of the games thats for sure, i have a fx5200 now and it rocks at doom3 etc but i can't use the better 9200 as ati don't support <9600 any more and i have to use an older xorg to support it
i think it's rediculous, i can't speak for other ATI cards but the 9200 is fully directx 9.0c compatible and certainly not in any need of upgrading just yet
it's all the money issue again, resources to make drivers, and i say this to all companies! if your going to stop support on a driver, for the love of mercy RELEASE THE CODE!!!!!!!!!!
DimaYasny 180 Godmode enabled Team Colleague Featured Poster
stick with nvidia guys, ATI are known for troublesome drivers
alienlinux 3 Junior Poster in Training
stick with nvidia guys, ATI are known for troublesome drivers
thats well known, least of all to me, but it's also kind of irellavent as i am poor and have little choice in the matter as it's the only card i have with tv-out
My main box does have an nvidia
TheNNS 112 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso
i agree, ati sucks.
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
my dad just baught a new dell pc (with vista arrgh) and it has a geforce 7 something. Its totally passively cooled?
TheNNS 112 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso
i want to get the 8800 gtx turbo, overclocked with custom liquid cooling.
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