update: the ati radeon video card problems

[Neal]

On Wed, 17 Jul 2002 07:35:04 -0700
<bholcomb at cableone.net> wrote:

> I'll second that.  I've used both and went to Nvida many years ago -
> never regretted it.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	"xfce-admin at moongroup.com" <xfce-admin at moongroup.com> on behalf
> of	"Olivier Fourdan" <fourdan at xfce.org> Sent:	17 Jul 2002 14:59:15
> +0200 To:	"xfce at moongroup.com" <xfce at moongroup.com>
> Subject:	Re: update: the ati radeon video card problems
> 
> Hi Jay,
> 
> I would say go with NVidia, I am not an NVidia employee, I have no
> money in NVidia, and I've seen a couple of problems with NVidia cards
> too, but when it comes to Linux and OpenGL it's clearly the best
> choice (at least for me).
> 
> The fact that they have an in-house Linux/XFree driver gives NVidia my
> vote.
> 
> Cheers,
> Olivier.
> 
> On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 14:21, Jay Daniels wrote:
> > I switched back to gnome and problem with losing video signal
> > persist over time.  I switched back to the G100 and no problem.
> > 
> > Just wanted to update and say it's not xfce, it's the ATI Mad Dog
> > video card or the Radeon driver.
> > 
> > Now, I am looking for a good 3d card for X with plenty of video ram?
> > Currently using RedHat 7.3 with XFree86-4.2.0-8
> >
 
Most definitely nVidia (and the nVidia drivers)

I replaced my ATI Rage 128 a couple weeks ago and have had no problems
since.

-- 
Neal
Registered Linux User #159445, Libranet Linux 2.0/ext3/XFce
Athlon 800 MHz Desktop and Toshiba 2140XCDS laptop.