Apple ditches NVIDIA, goes with ATI for their desktop lineup

Re:Apple ditches NVIDIA, goes with ATI for their desktop lineup by dman on Wednesday July 28, 2010 @01:38AM (#1553684)

I think youre in for a surprise if you try the new drivers! On ubuntu the install is seamless, even otherwise the installer just works and ati has pretty simple interface for doing colour balancing of multiple displays.

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Re:Apple ditches NVIDIA, goes with ATI for their desktop lineup by maigret on Wednesday July 28, 2010 @01:51AM (#1553697)

Let me disagree with that. The open drivers don't support 3D, and the closed drivers make X crash at least once a day on my setup and similar ones. I have a laptop that is just one year old. All in all, I always got a better Linux experience with NVidia.

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Re:Apple ditches NVIDIA, goes with ATI for their desktop lineup by dagw on Wednesday July 28, 2010 @06:35AM (#1554030)

The open drivers do support 3D. You won't get the same performance as the closed drivers, but you will get accelerated 3D plenty good enough for desktop effects and simple 3d games.

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Re:Apple ditches NVIDIA, goes with ATI for their desktop lineup by i80and on Wednesday July 28, 2010 @08:28AM (#1554175)

The open drivers support 3D IF you're using R600 or below. Which is a pretty big if. Once the new Gallium3D driver is merged in Mesa 8.0, we'll talk.

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Re:Apple ditches NVIDIA, goes with ATI for their desktop lineup by dman on Wednesday July 28, 2010 @10:20AM (#1554371)

Are you using some funky compiz plugins ? What distro are you using ? When did you last update your drivers ? What laptop are you using and what card does it have ?

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