Hello, On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 09:13:56AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Which kernel has support for ATI chipsets if any? Could be another good > test case for my unofficial 2.6.12 amd64 sarge netinst image. 2.6.10+ do have support. > > In summary this thing was a mispurchase, the first and last time I bought > > something ATI based. > You mean you didn't know about ATI already? It is very rare to see > someone recomend ATI for linux use. It is common to see people tell you > to stay far away from it. The drivers just aren't that good, if they > exist at all. Of course I know about the reputation ATI has got with their drivers. But when I got the box, there was no other turion64 box with nvidia graphics meeting my requirements. Additionally, I wanted to look myself at the ATI drivers, they behave a lot like the first releases from nvidia 5 years ago, when they started supporting GNU/Linux. I can live with the ATI driver problems, but not with the insufficient ACPI implementation and the keyboard/mouse problems -- a laptop I cannot query about the battery status is pretty useless, when you are on the road. Best regards Frederik Schueler -- ENOSIG
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