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Its the only reason im holding off from buying a 9800pro.
Any offers ?
Do ATI's linux drivers still suck ?
Its the only reason im holding off from buying a 9800pro.
Any offers ?
Originally Posted by Saracen
Yes, they still suck, I install the drivers for my radeon 9000 under Fedora Core1 and the thing fails to find a display.
So, that means I have to use a standard driver with zero accelleration. Sucks!
I wish they'd open source them so that more people could sort the issues out. Some might say that'd give the wrong people access to certain information - but let's face it, Nvidia engineers will need more than closed source drivers to stop them working out how ATI implement their technologies.
Last edited by Steve; 08-03-2004 at 05:35 PM.
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oh well, 5950ultra it is then
Well, maybe you have more Linux experience than me and have a better chance of getting it to work...
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Ive read around a few places, and they all say pretty much the same thing
The ATI drivers are rubbish, But they work, at least anyway.
nVidea is a better gamble
AMD Athlon XP 2400+ | Connect3D Radeon 9600PRO | Seagate Barrcuda 80GB HDD | 512mb PC2700 Crucial RAM | MSI KT6 Delta FIS2R | Zorro Silver Case | Windows XP/Gentoo Linux
I got the drivers working perfectly under Gentoo a little while ago. Wasn't too hard, just followed a guide on their forums. Managed to play UT2K3 under Linux (~70 fps).
Are they still working perfectly now? Ill be "attempting" to install gentoo in a couple of weeks and ive got a Rad 8500.
Not technically they dont, no. I havn't got it linux installed anymore, but it worked right up to when i accidently overwrote the xfree86 config file
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