Ati 4890

[Sticks_uk]

I currently have a ati 4890 card and have been thinking of switiching back linux. I am not a heavy gamer anymore but have a spare 500gb hd if I want to go back to dual booting.

I know there are some driver issues(or lack of drivers).

Is the ati card problems specific to gaming? as thesedays I use my PC as a TV/Home Entertainment system.

How about native linux games do these still have problems with ati ?

changing back to nvidia isn't really an option atm as I have only had this PC for about 6months.

would appreciate some more info while I contiune to browse the search function:)

[Sticks_uk]

I cannot seem to find out if the ati problem is specfic to games or also mutimedia. Can anyone point me in the right direction please

[efikkan]

Ubuntu 9.10 with both default Catalyst-drivers and Catalyst 10.2 works fine on my Radeon HD 4870, but the performance is not as good as the Windows drivers (Catalyst 10.2).

[R33D3M33R]

I did a benchmark with my HD 4670 a while ago. Kubuntu 9.10 vs Windows 7, Catalyst 9.10. I tested 3 native Linux games, Unigine and Wine performance. Ubuntu did very well in the native games, but failed in Wine.

You can see the results charts here: Windows 7 vs Kubuntu 9.10 result charts (http://andrej.mernik.eu/racunalo/windows_7_vs_ubuntu_9_10/rezultati/windows_7_vs_ubuntu_9_10.pdf)
The main article is here: Windows 7 vs Kubuntu 9.10 (http://andrej.mernik.eu/racunalo/windows_7_vs_ubuntu_9_10/) but you will probably not understand a thing, not even with google translate (http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fandrej.mernik.eu%2Fracunalo%2Fwindo ws_7_vs_ubuntu_9_10%2F&sl=sl&tl=en) :D