[ltp] New ati-drivers out there

[Jens Mayer]

* On Wednesday 15 June 2005 17:22, Konstantin Filtschew wrote:

> Why do you all think, that nvidia is better. I try to setup a desktop
> System with suspend and yes it is again a graphic card. This graphic
> card is from NVIDIA and the driver doesn't support suspend!

I can second this. I set  up swsusp2 on my desktop, but it finally only wor=
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with the (unaccelerated) open source "nv" drivers from Xorg.=20

=46rom what I've seen during my "experiments", the Nvidia closed source dri=
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was even worse than ATI's proprietary driver when it came to suspend/resume=
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freezing the box completely.

I do not have too much hope that ATI (or Nvidia) will get matured drivers o=
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soon - they seem to focus on fps-addicted gamers, not on users who want=20
"basic functionality" first - which includes suspend/resume while having a=
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working DRI for render- and composite extensions for me.

Let's see how r300.sf.net evolves - I have much more faith in these guys.

Regards,
Jens

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