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[ale] help - ATI video card hell
- Subject: [ale] help - ATI video card hell
- From: james.sumners at gmail.com (James Sumners)
- Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 15:46:27 -0400
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <[email protected]> <CAAt=rgDSwxcaSaZFM2HrJy90KvvcRgc5Eo=TFRrHhJKyn7eRLA@mail.gmail.com> <[email protected]>
People say the rule I follow has changed in recent years, but
experiences like yours keeps me convinced otherwise. My rule is "don't
buy an ATI (now AMD) video card for any machine on which I _might
ever_ want to run 3D accelerated X11." The drivers are crap. I buy
nVidia and use nVidia's drivers.
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 15:15, Ron Frazier <atllinuxenthinfo at c3energy.com> wrote:
> If AMD wrote the driver for Linux, why can't they provide a
> one click (or few click) GUI installer like they do for other OS's?
> Installing a video card shouldn't take 2 hours of research and procedures.
>
--
James Sumners
http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/
"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts
pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."
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