ATI Radeon : what works on Ubuntu ?

[ulrich steffens]

Am Freitag, den 24.02.2006, 13:38 +0100 schrieb 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. :-)
> 
> 
> --
> Vince
> 
> 
if your main concern is 2d quality, then have a look at matrox. word on
the street is that matrox's 2d quality is unbeatable, but they're rather
expensive. maybe you can get a used one :)

ulrich