Here I go…
I have dabbled with linux distro’s on and off all shapes and forms for around three years. I love the idea that people are building and working together towards an open source platform that benifits the community without sinister motivation…
But please!! why have I spent hours…days…trying to get a graphics card working? And not a new card, Two years old. The drivers are available but they dont work?? Whats with that??
People on the forums try… but it is hopless.
It still wont work.
Graphics card!! Is it so hard?
I have had enough of wasting my F@@$Ng time trying to get something that should be a walk in the park working. My only option is to replace a perfectly good $350 card, just so I can run Suse 11.
Am I wrong?? The card is an ATI X1950 Pro. I think ive tried everything.
i may be wrong,but, wouldn’t that be ATI’s fault & not linux ? I myself,prefer nvidia cards as they seem to be less of a problem.I still have an ATI card in my laptop,but, that uses the built-in radeon driver
Yes indeed I am pointing the finger at the wrong people. My apologies. It is just so frustrating.
The Linux community is very helpful and supportive.
Thanks for reminding me.
FINALLY after all that exhaustive WORK and FRUSTRATION i’m AT LAST on
page http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/ATI_Video_Cards where i find lots
of “Pros” and Xs…but alas, no ATI X1950 Pro
time elapsed: about 4 minutes (including typing this nonsense)
so, lets compare, which is greater
4 minutes or “hours…days”
by using the former you could have saved enough time to have written the
card maker and ask’em why they sell cards without Linux drivers…and, politely inform them you will be buying nVidia from now on…
Please do that! and, consider placing the worthless on industrial
strength operating systems graphic card on eBay where you might get
enough for it that it won’t hurt so bad to say goodbye…
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DenverD (Linux Counter 282315)
A Texan in Denmark
It’s ATI’s fault that your graphics card does not work the way you want it to. They do not support computing freedom or free software, and do not make enough effort to make their product work in conjunction with free software. I recommend buying graphics cards made by NVidia instead. I have a GeForce 7300 that works in conjunction with GNU-Linux perfectly. It took < 5 minutes to install the drivers for it.
Hmm, I found out that the NVidia driver I have installed isn’t open source, but Nouveau offers an open source driver for NVidia cards. I’m going to test it out and see how well it works. I like to have all open source programs on my computer.
Seriously? That list is soo way outdated, one would have to get his hardware from the junk yard to get compatible components. Thats a shame of support!
Better fire up google/linux and drop your hardware in the search box to get some info.
The reason it may be out of date,is, because of people who have the hardware working with openSUSE, do not update the database/wiki,which means me & you and everybody running openSUSE.
Indeed, this is a pet peeve of mine. But other than illustrate to the openSUSE commnunity I’m the grumpy old man that my wife already knows me to be :rolleyes: (by nagging everyone running 11.0 to update the HCL with their hardware info), its hard to know what to do to solve this.
> The reason it may be out of date,is, because of people who have the
> hardware working with openSUSE, do not update the database/wiki,which
> means me & you and everybody running openSUSE.
do you happen to have a URL pointer handy…i’ll be happy to load my
junk yard (but working) hardware in there…
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DenverD (Linux Counter 282315)
A Texan in Denmark