Hello,
Here is a review of different video cards on Linux. They test on SuSE but many users of Fedora will find this interesting. There is a good discussion about the problems of installing the Video drivers and all the problems that the reviewer found installing ATI drivers.
I for one fought for almost a month to get and ATI card to work in FC1 only to change to Nvidia which installed in minutes. :)
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Our first test bed was an nForce3 MSI Socket 939 board. We isolated some of our problems to the agpgart module - for older ATI drivers, we need to load a separate specific AGP module on SuSE 9.1 for DRI to load correctly. On our MSI nForce3 board, this should have been the nvidia_agp module. However, try as we could, we could not get nvidia_agp and fglrx to play well with each other. Some of the issues stem from SuSE 9.1 not recognizing the nForce3 chipset correctly, but some issues may stem from ATI drivers just not recognizing everything correctly. After switching to a Socket 939 VIA motherboard, our problems suddenly disappeared. Of course, we had to re-test our entire NVIDIA suite on the new motherboard (we saved it for last the second time around).
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There may be some points that will help some people having problems.
<http://anandtech.com/linux/showdoc.aspx?i=2229&p=1>
-- Robin Laing
