[mythtv-users] Hope for ATI Cards???

[Nick Rout]

On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Douglas Peale
<Douglas_Peale at comcast.net> wrote:
> On 08/21/2010 05:41 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Greg Oliver <oliver.greg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Douglas Peale
>>> <Douglas_Peale at comcast.net> wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>> ATI does good hardware, but they suck at software. I have an ATI HDTV wonder because a friend of mine tried to use it in
>>>> windows, and gave it to me in disgust.
>>>>
>>>> I have ATI HD4850 card in my system. Although it did not work well at first, since 10.04 video has worked fine with the open
>>>> source driver. In previous versions, the proprietary driver worked better, but never fully correct. 3D is slower with the open
>>>> source driver, but beyond google earth, I don't use 3D much.
>>>
>>> My experience exactly...  At least the 2d is better (although still
>>> very cpu intensive) now....  The guys working on it are real good
>>> people too (phoronix forums) - but they do have _a lot_ of ground to
>>> make up...  Even the fglrx proprietary driver is crap for the most
>>> part...  Funny how the two teams are not even allowed to share code
>>> even though they all work for amd....
>>>
>>> One of the reasons I just bought a quad core intel versus an amd chip!!!
>>
>> nvidia are good because their drivers (usually) work, but evil because
>> they are closed source.
>>
>> ati are good because they release open source drivers, but evil
>> because they simply don't seem to work (yet, maybe this latest release
>> will prove that wrong).
>
> Never assign "evil" to that which can be attributed to incompetence.

yeah I wondered if it was the right word...