Video card tests in Linux. ATI vs Nvidia

[Robin Laing]

Hello,

Here is a review of different video cards on Linux.  They test on SuSE 
but many users of Fedora will find this interesting.  There is a good 
discussion about the problems of installing the Video drivers and all 
the problems that the reviewer found installing ATI drivers.

I for one fought for almost a month to get and ATI card to work in FC1 
only to change to Nvidia which installed in minutes. :)

[quote]
Our first test bed was an nForce3 MSI Socket 939 board. We isolated 
some of our problems to the agpgart module - for older ATI drivers, we 
need to load a separate specific AGP module on SuSE 9.1 for DRI to 
load correctly. On our MSI nForce3 board, this should have been the 
nvidia_agp module. However, try as we could, we could not get 
nvidia_agp and fglrx to play well with each other. Some of the issues 
stem from SuSE 9.1 not recognizing the nForce3 chipset correctly, but 
some issues may stem from ATI drivers just not recognizing everything 
correctly. After switching to a Socket 939 VIA motherboard, our 
problems suddenly disappeared. Of course, we had to re-test our entire 
NVIDIA suite on the new motherboard (we saved it for last the second 
time around).
[/quote]


There may be some points that will help some people having problems.

<http://anandtech.com/linux/showdoc.aspx?i=2229&p=1>

-- 
Robin Laing