RE: [Nolug] Debian and ATI Radeon 9200

I agree with Ron!

Throughout the history no matter what is the platform, ATI has been a
disappointment. Harware in paper is ok, but drivers always let you down.

Additionally I must admit, within the past 1.5 years, nVIDIA has slipped a
bit to the dark side as well. Their drivers have much more bugs than they
used to. I suspect that they are trying to make the drivers unified for way
too many old video cards.

I still prefer nVIDIA.

Petri

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net
> [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net] On Behalf Of Ron Johnson
> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 11:45 AM
> To: NOLUG ML
> Subject: Re: [Nolug] Debian and ATI Radeon 9200
>
>
> On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 11:00 -0500, Friedrich Gurtler wrote:
> > Heya
> >
> > Pretty noobish here, so bear with me. I cut out most of
> the spam from
> > these commands so you can just see what I did.
> >
> > I am trying to get my ATI Radeon and Debian to play nicely
> together. I
> > downloaded the ATI driver, and converted the rpm to a deb.
> [snip]
> >
> > So obviously it didnt like the fake kernel that I sorta
> built. How do I
> > obtain the exact kernel source from debian for my release? =/
>
> Get an nvidia card? They show that they care about selling to the
> Linux crowd by keeping the driver in sync with the Windows driver,
> and have an open-source "wrapper" that encloses the binary-only
> driver.
>
> I had great success with that on my Debian box.
>
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