From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kk3gl-0000pq-Gp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:20:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B3E6BE03D8; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:20:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.233]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 935AEE03D8 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:20:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id c37so837268wra.26 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:20:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=X8ri4s3z9Ki3tzLDIqD6bA9MwzDm2Rf7fMFZ1DSvfoI=; b=bNKobBXdfrinY0EPtfIE0WQhFyRZ5KDAgdGUj3HAjm7gjE2VmjmmvX+CR0BeAGfCqU pDNZSh5mF1qY8gnLw3vp6kTcEvIN8Ik+EL5ofaG8aiVwdrbze0r01FvUb0nTiKXubbnu ImuniuLO3WtYpZ6gkTxGP9o45w12m4Ys5XCYM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=RLZN9oiqaT6zs79lCYYh9OLdbCYJZpx6rmfR2LulDiYt2HX9DLGWV6p1DpowFyAJrG OqemqxjRuR/jzB4zaTapxFYo+HeWDVupw5cUM++/v5HHLor+aNCMMRCPmEnLnDobxuO/ zBNoav4KCVTfoLuGNhwr1+wRPDFS6YuMzCHHY= Received: by 10.65.119.14 with SMTP id w14mr7038371qbm.11.1222636821087; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:20:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.1.1.39? (CPE0050bf91e318-CM0014e8b58ca4.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [99.241.58.64]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s12sm3386694qbs.9.2008.09.28.14.20.19 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:20:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <48DFF578.9070000@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:22:00 -0400 From: Hal Martin User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080908) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] State of ATi drivers in Linux Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c444b829-c3c8-4bc4-ab58-97358e1a92f3 X-Archives-Hash: 217a9d8c8a34cb0a706d2a28c3276ec0 Hello all, I am contemplating building a new computer with an AMD/ATi graphics card. I've been following the subject of ATi driver quality in linux for a while, but I realize that the experiences I read on Google search results are, shall we say, biased, as many people who have perfectly working cards don't go out and comment on how great their drivers are. So, do any of you have newer (HD series) AMD/ATi graphics cards? What drivers (AMD closed source, or open source) are you using? Are they stable? How is the performance? Any noise issues with your card when it's idle? Under load? I'd just like to point out that I have an NVidia 7900GTX right now, and it's been working well for me, but I'd like to upgrade to something with stream processors and little more power. I've heard that NVidia 2D performance under linux suffers greatly if you have an 8000, 9000, or GX series card. Have any of your experienced poor 2D performance since upgrading your NVidia card? Thanks, -Hal