Bye bye ATI!!

m00t00 · 10-22-2004, 04:42 PM

np. sorry I couldnt help. Tis odd UT should crash...
did you ever try xorg with the xorg drivers?. (Compile radeon module in your kernel). They worked good for me...

Linux.tar.gz · 11-03-2004, 07:46 PM

Forget ATI. I had so many troubles with Doom3, xmame, X11, Flightgear,unreal tournament, etc.... ATI SUXXOR. Before, i had a NVIDIA, and it worked fine and it was easy to configure. I'll buy a new one soon.

oliwel · 11-04-2004, 01:24 AM

Hey Linux.tar.gz

thx for your very helpful post - I just ripped out my ATI card from my brand new IBM Thinkpad - haha....
Would be great if all these stupid idiots can keep there flames and provide some useful hints for people who are stuck with this....

cheers

FinalFantasy · 11-04-2004, 01:36 AM

Change to NV, I can't stand ATI anymore.....

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oliwel · 11-04-2004, 01:41 AM

Hi FinalFantasy,

I CANT CHANGE - I have thinkpad and cannot change the GraphicsBoard, the FireGL is a great piece of hardware and works (on Windows...) better than all the Nvidia stuff

FinalFantasy · 11-04-2004, 01:50 AM

Hi oliwel,

I have 9550(used to), but the ATI driver doesn't support Xorg 6.8.1, which is a shame. I won't downgrade my X to suit the driver.

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I know FireGL works great. But the price is great toooo.^_^.

eelriver · 11-04-2004, 04:03 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by oliwel
Hey Linux.tar.gz

thx for your very helpful post - I just ripped out my ATI card from my brand new IBM Thinkpad - haha....
Would be great if all these stupid idiots can keep there flames and provide some useful hints for people who are stuck with this....

cheers

Did you try posting your question in a new thread so people could help you with your problem? Or reading the ~35 other threads that offer ATI help?
Just the title of this thread should tell you that it was bound to be full of posts by people that have given up and want to vent.

oliwel · 11-04-2004, 05:08 AM

Hi eelriver,

I started here because kleptophobiac posted that he got it to work and I wanted to contact him directly - perhaps I should really open a new thread, but in general I dont like opening new ones when there are exisiting ones with the same problem

Oliver

Linux.tar.gz · 11-04-2004, 01:10 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by oliwel
Hey Linux.tar.gz

thx for your very helpful post - I just ripped out my ATI card from my brand new IBM Thinkpad - haha....
Would be great if all these stupid idiots can keep there flames and provide some useful hints for people who are stuck with this....

cheers

This wasn't an answer to you. Don't be so selfish

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mipia · 11-07-2004, 07:30 PM

funny how linux is getting me in the mood to update my newly updated system. Well, its not completely updated, more half-baked at the moment. Im still running my radeon 7500 and it barely runs. 256 megs of ram just isnt cutting it, in a perfect world I have a gig. and my monitor...ho boy, its dying. Text is bluuury.
But yes, ati has been a headache from what Ive seen (especialy with a non rpm slackware distro like mine) and realy I think a nice GF4 video card would go nicely with my nforce2 chip.

Arch Stanton · 11-07-2004, 07:59 PM

You know I just bought an Ati 9600 Xt and what a treat that was to get running ;{
But I can play Quake 2 now so I guess I'll be O.K

I am so sorry I didn't get another nvidia card.

db391 · 11-07-2004, 08:10 PM

yes my nvidia gf2 (mx400 ddr) runs beautifully under both linux 2.6.8.1/xorg6.8 and windows 2000/xp (i dual-boot 3 os's)

with glxgears giving a rating of around 680fps and with opengl running very smoothly.

(btw this is the binary ia32 driver not the nv driver)