Giving Up On Fedora

[夜神 岩男]

On 12/28/2011 06:05 AM, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote:
> On 12/27/2011 01:54 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 12:37, Kevin Martin<kevintm at ameritech.net> wrote:
>>> Here's the thing....it's difficult to buy a laptop today that doesn't
>>> have an nVidia video card and so it
>>> behooves nVidia
>>
>> That´s because you surely choose CPUs from the Wintel monopoly. ;-) If
>> you choose an AMD based laptop, it´ll surely include an ATI video
>> chipset :-)
>
> My Laptop has no issues with Fedora, the issue was with main PC which
> has Nvidia card. I have heard ATI's drivers are even worse than
> Nvidia's. Many of my friends using ATI face more problems. I have never
> had any issue.
>
> Thanks for recommendation though.
>
> :-)
>
> Swapnil

For the record my company deploys almost nothing but AMD/ATI to clients. 
We've found the ATI drivers to work quite well once understood. We had 
to formalized a process to keep the fglrx kernel module in sync with 
kernel packages, but that's necessary with any external package that 
lives so close to the kernel.

For 3D effects the Radeon drivers sing right along. If anything is 
lacking its 2D performance over older cable types (like the older Ds-15 
stuff) on HD1080 or larger screens with < Radeon 6230 chips (the tiny, 
fanless economy model embedded in Fusion A350 class boards). But there 
are driver options which mitigate this to a large degree and a few 
sanity settings that drastically cut down on problems that I hear used 
to plague ATI. (ProTip: A lot of people think they have the ATI drivers 
installed but don't because they never actually compiled the fglrx 
kernel module -- and this has given the ATI drivers a bad rap)

Anyway, if Intel/nVidia made fiscal sense we would be deploying that. I 
assume we would have had a similar learning curve with their drivers or 
noveau. My point is most of this stuff actually works fine on most 
chipsets if you can get around to making the drivers make sense to you, 
but this can require more study and experimentation than people are 
prepared for.