I cannot speak from personal experience, but from the plethora of horrible stories I've read on mailing lists and websites about the general hella-crappiness of ati drivers (and no, I'm not just referencing the thread that was featured on hardocp a while ago), I would not suggest an ati card to anyone. Not to mention that they stopped supporting the development of radeon drivers for Linux a while back. Of course if you just want good 2D, you probably don't have anything to worry about, but if that's all you're wanting then instead of spending all that money, just go grab a second hand Matrox card off of Ebay, and you'll have both excellent 2D and quality drivers. If you're wanting accelerated 3D, I have had very good luck with my Nvidia card ... yeah, yeah, Nvidia is evil and closed source drivers are evil, but I have yet to experience any problems, and the performance is very good. I'm not trying to stir up a flame pot, these are just my opinions based upon a slurry of information, some personally experienced, some gleaned from completely unreliable sources. At the end of the day it's your dollar that will get spent. Sean On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 17:56, Gerard Robin wrote: > Hello, > I plan to buy a computer equipped with a processor AMD Athlon xp 1600+. > My vendor suggest me to use the video card ATI expert 2000 > with linux (my dist is potato 2.2r2 with xfree 3 ) > There is a lot of drivers ATI in the list. > Is it possible that one of these drivers matches the ATI expert 2000 card ? > Can someone give me some advices. > TIA > -- > Gerard > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > -- GPG Public Key available: http://sean.gutenpress.org/sean.asc
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