Re: Debian/AMD64/Sid on MSI S270 notebook
Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>So far from what I have read the support for ATI chipsets isn't doing
>that well. That counts both the motherboard chipsets and the video
>chips (unless you are lucky enough to have one of the video chips the
>ati binary driver actually works with).
>
>I didn't know the Turion came in 64bit, I thought they were limited to
>32bit mode. I guess they changed that.
>
>
There is the 64-bit now. The only thing that sucks is most of the AMD
notebooks come with the crappy ATI chipsets.
>I still believe the general recomendation stands: Don't buy ATI to run
>Linux at this time.
>
>
I've been bitten by both ATI *and* nVidia. My recommendations would be,
1. Stay away from ATI video cards - no Linux or crap Linux support.
nVidia has very good Linux support (and binaries in Debian help too :)
2. Stay away from nVidia *and* ATI mobo chipsets. I got an nForce2
chipset thinking it was supported quite well since it is quite old now.
Well, think again. Sometimes the IDE went on IRQ 7 and crapped out.
Sometimes it goes on IRQ 14 and works good. There are weird IRQ 7
interrupts, with nothing on it.
irq 0: 345254399 timer irq 12: 1
irq 1: 2 irq 14: 2178080 ide0
irq 3: 1 irq177: 39570708 ohci_hcd, eth2
irq 5: 424 parport0 [3] irq185: 138546 ohci_hcd, NVidia nFo
irq 7: 1268244 irq193: 2 ehci_hcd
irq 9: 0 acpi irq201: 1390067 eth0
irq 10: 1 irq209: 81958 eth1
irq 11: 1
So, for 3D and other video stuff, I would highly recommend nVidia. For
AMD mobo chipsets I would recommend VIA since I *never* had any
compatability problems with all the way from KV133 and KT133A until
today's K8 chipsets. Good, proven and reliable. 5% performace "increase"
of what ATI or nVidia claim is 0% performance if the hardware is not
supported.
For Intel chips, Intel chipsets are very well supported in Linux.
- Adam
PS. SiS and other "generics" are generally ok, but check the support in
the kernel first.
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