Ubuntu: Karmic Koala 9.10, should I buy you an nVidia or ATI video card? Ubuntu: karmični Koala 9,10, naj ti kupim nVidia ali ATI grafično kartico?

Posted on 16. Objavljeno dne 16. Nov, 2009 by Dragos in Operating Systems , Ubuntu November 2009, ki ga Dragos v Operacijski sistemi, Ubuntu

ATI sucks, for real! ATI je zanič, zares!

Definitely an nVidia graphic card. Definitivno nVidia grafične kartice. Why? Zakaj? Because AMD is very frivolous when it comes to support its legacy video cards. Ker je AMD je zelo neresno, ko gre za podporo svoje karte zapuščino video. I don't think that a 3 years old video card should be considered obsolete, and dropped being supported. Ne verjamem, da bi bilo treba 3 leta staro grafično kartico obravnavata kot zastarela in padla pa podpira. I am an unlucky ATI card user (Radeon x1950 GT) that runs only on 10% of this chipset's performance. Jaz sem nesrečna kartico ATI uporabnika (Radeon x1950 GT), ki deluje le na 10% te chipset uspešnosti. Yes you heard it right! Da, prav ste slišali! Even though there are the open source drivers for video cards that are no longer supported by AMD, these still do not compare with the official fglrx driver. Čeprav obstajajo odprtokodne gonilnike za grafične kartice, ki niso več podpira AMD, ti še vedno ne primerjati z uradnim voznik fglrx. This driver will not work under Karmic Koala, because it needs a Linux kernel of version 2.6.28, whereas Karmic is built on Linux kernel 2.6.31. Ta gonilnik ne deluje v okviru karmični Koala, ker potrebuje jedro Linux različice 2.6.28, medtem ko je karmični zgrajen na jedru Linux 2.6.31. One note: do not try to downgrade your Linux kernel on Karmic in order to use the fglrx driver unless you're a very experienced Linux user. Ena opomba: ne poskušate strmina vaš Linux jedra na karmični, da se uporabljajo fglrx gonilnik, razen če ste zelo izkušen uporabnik Linuxa. It's just that you have a very high probability to damage your system. To je samo, da imate zelo velika verjetnost, da poškoduje vaš sistem.

Why nVidia then? Zakaj nVidia potem? Because the developers from nVidia do really care of their products and their clients and you will find much better driver support from them than from ATI AMD. Ker razvijalci iz nVidia narediti zares skrbijo za svoje izdelke in njihovim strankam, in boste našli veliko boljšo podporo vozniku iz njih kot iz ATI AMD. Unless you are planning to buy the latest super-puper model video card model from ATI, do consider getting an nVidia one. Če ne nameravate kupiti najnovejše super-puper model grafična kartica ATI od modela, pa menijo, pridobivanje nVidia enega. You'll save time and some nerves (but not money, AFAIK). Boste prihranili čas in nekaj živcev (ne pa tudi denarja, AFAIK).

Still wanna get an ATI card? Še vedno želite dobiti kartico ATI? Here are some heart-breaking stats from glxgears with my system (Radeon x1950 GT, AMD x2 5200+ Dual Core 2.6GHz, 4GB Ram @ 667MHz): Tukaj je nekaj srčno-breaking statistika iz glxgears s svoj sistem (Radeon x1950 GT, AMD X2 5200 + Dual Core 2.6GHz, 4GB Ram @ 667MHz):

dragos@dragos-desktop:~$ glxgears Dragos @ Dragos-desktop: ~ $ glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be Running sinhroniziran v navpični osvežitev. Framerate je treba
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate. približno enako stopnjo osveževanja monitorja.
15676 frames in 5.0 seconds 15.676 sličice v 5,0 sekundah
16040 frames in 5.0 seconds 16.040 sličice v 5,0 sekundah
15946 frames in 5.0 seconds 15.946 sličice v 5,0 sekundah
15940 frames in 5.0 seconds 15.940 sličice v 5,0 sekundah

3000FPS from glxgears with such great specs? 3000FPS iz glxgears s tako velikim očala? That is shi*ty performance if you ask me. To je shi * ty izvajanja, če mene vprašaš. On Intrepid Ibex (when fglrx was still supported) I was getting 120K+ FPS.. On Intrepid kozorog (fglrx, ko je bil še vedno podpira), sem bil pridobivanje 120k + FPS .. And yes, for Linux gamers, Nexuiz is slow at times and crashes when playing with an ATI card in combination with the open-source drivers. In ja, zakaj zabava Linux, Nexuiz je počasna v času, ko se zruši in igranje s kartico ATI v kombinaciji z odprto gonilnike izvor.