On 5/31/07, Tom Horsley <tom.horsley@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 31 May 2007 04:08:52 +0200 "Andras Simon" <szajmi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Could someone who > uses it tell about his/her experiences, especially stability-wise? Have fun reading: http://home.att.net/~Tom.Horsley/easy-linux.html
Nice read :-) It brings back fond memories of modeline tweaking from 10+ years ago.
The biggest problem seems to be the random screen blanking and flickering that seems to infest a wide variety of ATI cards when driving high resolution monitors. In many ways this looks more like a hardware defect than a driver problem because folks have seen in under windows as well.
If it only affected high resolution monitors, I could live with it, since I'm not likely to go above 1280x1024 in the foreseeable future. But I've just found a message of yours in this list from last August, stating | On x86_64, I have never yet seen DRI working correctly in the open source | radeon driver, so basically there is no ATI 3D on x86_64. The fglrx driver | worked for a while, but the most recent ones hard hang the system whenever | I exit the X server, so that's not much funn. I don't care much about the fglrx driver, but if the open source driver doesn't work on x86_64, then I may be better off with a very low end NVidia card, occasionally trying out noveau or NV's driver but generally not putting much hope into 3D. Andras
