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Joe Blow

@cableone.net

reply to Eatmeingreek
Re: Is it time to give ATI another look?

I just bought a Radeon HD 3650 with 512 megs of ram and a 750 mhz gpu a couple of weeks ago because I had heard that ATI's Linux drivers had improved. What a joke. My computer literally became so slow as to be unusable. It would take approximately 5 seconds to scroll an 1/8 of an inch in any browser, and almost that slow in any other application too. It was pathetic.

The radeon open source driver gives much better performance, but any time I scroll down a page or drag something around with the mouse I can hear a sound like electrical arcing coming out of the card. I've pulled the card and inspected it but there are no visible signs of damage. It's just a very, very annoying sound and makes me wonder if the card is going to burn up and take out the motherboard, cpu and power supply.

It will be a long, long time before I buy another ATI based card. I've ordered another Nvidia based card to replace it and just hope it gets here before this piece of junk fails. I'll probably just end up giving the ATI card away to someone who runs Windows as it's basically worthless in Linux. What a joke for a $100 video card.


Eatmeingreek
Gentard

join:2001-06-29
San Francisco, CA

It looks like it's still too soon, but I still expect things to improve. You should consider donating your card to one of the radeonhd developers if you're just going to give it away.

I'm thinking about buying a card to help with testing the improved drivers.

FWIW, 2D performance in the new nVidia cards using the open-source "nv" driver sucks. nVidia developers support the nv driver and they have said that those problems will remain unfixed. The nv driver is written to obfuscate its workings, so it's unlikely anyone else will be able to fix it. This is a really poor showing by nVidia.
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Joe Blow

@cableone.net

said by Eatmeingreek See Profile :

It looks like it's still too soon, but I still expect things to improve. You should consider donating your card to one of the radeonhd developers if you're just going to give it away.

I'm thinking about buying a card to help with testing the improved drivers.

FWIW, 2D performance in the new nVidia cards using the open-source "nv" driver sucks. nVidia developers support the nv driver and they have said that those problems will remain unfixed. The nv driver is written to obfuscate its workings, so it's unlikely anyone else will be able to fix it. This is a really poor showing by nVidia.
I may donate the card. I hadn't thought about that option.

I hadn't realized that NVidia was going to just leave the nv problems unfixed. That really sucks. Especially since I can't get Nvidia drivers to compile with the 2.6.24-1-amd64 kernel. Module-assistant fails and so does the NVidia installer.


Eatmeingreek
Gentard

join:2001-06-29
San Francisco, CA
Nvidia drivers work for me on AMD64 using Gentoo's 2.6.24-gentoo-r7 kernel. Driver version 169.09-r1.
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"Be safe be suspicious"


Joe Blow

@cableone.net

said by Eatmeingreek See Profile :

Nvidia drivers work for me on AMD64 using Gentoo's 2.6.24-gentoo-r7 kernel. Driver version 169.09-r1.
They work for me in Debian, if I run a 64-bit userland too. However, I really need to run a 32-bit userland because of what I use the machine for--it's a testing lab for our production machines so I have to have the same environment.
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