On 12/28/2011 06:05 AM, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote:
On 12/27/2011 01:54 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 12:37, Kevin Martinkevintm@ameritech.net wrote:
Here's the thing....it's difficult to buy a laptop today that doesn't have an nVidia video card and so it behooves nVidia
That´s because you surely choose CPUs from the Wintel monopoly. ;-) If you choose an AMD based laptop, it´ll surely include an ATI video chipset :-)
My Laptop has no issues with Fedora, the issue was with main PC which has Nvidia card. I have heard ATI's drivers are even worse than Nvidia's. Many of my friends using ATI face more problems. I have never had any issue.
Thanks for recommendation though.
:-)
Swapnil
For the record my company deploys almost nothing but AMD/ATI to clients. We've found the ATI drivers to work quite well once understood. We had to formalized a process to keep the fglrx kernel module in sync with kernel packages, but that's necessary with any external package that lives so close to the kernel.
For 3D effects the Radeon drivers sing right along. If anything is lacking its 2D performance over older cable types (like the older Ds-15 stuff) on HD1080 or larger screens with < Radeon 6230 chips (the tiny, fanless economy model embedded in Fusion A350 class boards). But there are driver options which mitigate this to a large degree and a few sanity settings that drastically cut down on problems that I hear used to plague ATI. (ProTip: A lot of people think they have the ATI drivers installed but don't because they never actually compiled the fglrx kernel module -- and this has given the ATI drivers a bad rap)
Anyway, if Intel/nVidia made fiscal sense we would be deploying that. I assume we would have had a similar learning curve with their drivers or noveau. My point is most of this stuff actually works fine on most chipsets if you can get around to making the drivers make sense to you, but this can require more study and experimentation than people are prepared for.