Oliver Jones wrote:
Hi.
Anyone here use new ATI Radeon graphics cards under Linux? I'm looking at buying a new mid range graphics card. Ie, either an nVidia 5700 Ultra or ATI Radeon 9600XT. The supplier I'm looking at is out of stock on the nVidia cards. So I'm considering an ATI.
I've never used an ATI video card. I moved from Voodoo's to nVidia way back when Quake 3 came out.
In particular I'm interested to know if dual display and TV out works with ATI video cards under Linux. I'm pretty sure this works with nVidia boards under Linux.
Anyone here doing things like that on an ATI?
The dual display in the Radeon Mobility 320M on my laptop doesn't work properly. The hardware supports driving the lcd and the ext monitor at different framerates and XF86 claims to support it too but it doesn't work. The last time I looked at this was in August so it may have changed by now. The advice I was given regarding ATI or Nvidia by a guy who programs with OpenGL under Linux for a living was to go with Nvidia because the drivers always work. Unfortunately with laptops your choice is limited and I ended up with an ATI chipset. Not sure if that is true but I'm told that nvidia use the same source tree for their win and Linux drivers so you'd expect them always to work at least as well as the windows ones. HTH g -- Glenn Ramsey <glenn(a)componic.co.nz> http://www.componic.co.nz