ATI Radeon : what works on Ubuntu ?

[Vincent Trouilliez]

On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 13:16 +0100, ulrich steffens wrote:
> damn evolution, my mail got send before i finished (damn Ctrl + Enter :)
> had to add:
> 
> so good luck :)

Thanks ulrich, you helped a lot. (I still welcome further input though,
if there are any out there).

It looks like it my AGP port will be compatible then, so the biggest
problem is solved. 
And about the nice 2D picture, I am glad you spontaneously mentioned it.
I had heard about it before and wan't sure. But I am glad you confirm
it, because actually that was the first reason that lead me to give up
my on-board Nbidia card : I like to ha ve sharp/crisp/clean picture on
my desktop, and the Nvidia is very blurry, it's a pain to look at.
Since I heard that ATI  cared about picture quality a lot more than
Nvidia, I thought I would try. 
Other reason is that my Nvidia is useless because of the crappy binary
drivers, which never worked since Warty (!), causing endless segfaults,
massive screen corruption and hard locks. SO I thought, switching to an
ATI can only improve things !! ;-)

About 3D performance, I don't care. I am replacing the Geforce2 only to
because I want a better picture quality and stable driver, not to
upgrade it at all. So as long as the performance is similar to the
GeForce 2 MX 32MB, it's okay. So a Radeon 7000 is probably good enough,
and a 9250 will probably be significantly better. :-)


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Vince