[ltp] Re: New ati-drivers out there

[Michael Gaber]

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Alejandro Bonilla wrote:
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>        I encourage everyone that think or want to give IBM
>>
>>feedback about the
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>>>adapters they incorporate as their video cards... To send
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>>an email to
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>>>askibm@vnet.ibm.com to Ask IBM to please use nvidia cards
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>>or tell ATI to
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>>>make better video drivers.
>>>
>>>        We, here cannot do anything about it. Just ask our
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>>provider to please sell
>>
>>>us what we want.
>>>
>>> .Alejandro
>>>
>>
>>Are the nvidia linux drivers really any better on laptops?  I'm pretty
>>sure they don't support suspend and either.
>>
>>Alex
> 
> 
> 
> There is one fact. If you do not care about Graphics, i.e. games, special
> things or 3D acceleration, then both nvidia and ATI work perfectly. One
> simply uses the normal ATI driver used by XFree86 or xorg.
> 
> But, if you want Games(doom 3), or want real graphics accelaration, then
> Nvidia does a much much better work than ATI. Really! I use it in a desktop
> and works fine, I tried it in a laptop, but never really did much with it,
> but worked perfectly.
> 
> Nvidia driver is way easier to install (at least for me) and you can have
> like 80% of the nvidia power with the Linux driver, instead the ATI drivers
> gives you like a 30-40% performance of what you would get in Windows.
> 
> I have compared the x600 and nvidia 5750 and the Nvidia ran Doom 3 even
> faster than Windoz.
> 
> Let's face it. ATI is into the IBM's just by the fact that they have a
> "partnership".
> 
> I'm sick and really had it with this Video cards issues, why can't they just
> make a good driver?
> 
>  .Alejandro
> 

i can say tis is really true:
my laptop is better in EVERY aspect than my desktop but does far worse
on thinks like glxgears
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