Video Card Rehashing

[Bruce Marshall]

On Tuesday 07 November 2006 18:59, Collins Richey wrote:
> Until such time as AMD cleans out the Augean stables, I wouldn't touch
> ATI with a long pitch fork, unless to pitch the card entirely. Why it
> was only 8-12 months ago when ATI couldn't even get their drivers to
> work, and people were posting on Linux Today that they were reverting
> to Windows because their ATI cards wouldn't work on Linux.

I just had a situation on my one XP machine.   The DVD player refused to run 
saying something was haywire with the screen settings and to lower the 
resolution.   Well, it used to work so some update must have hosed it.

So I went to the ATI site and figured I would get the latest driver.  
Sure.....

After downloading about 34MB of .NET stuff (required)  

24MB of some fancy driver stuff...

6MB or so of what probably is the driver.....

It finally did work.  But I don't want all that crap even though I don't use 
Windows unless I really, really have to.  (mapping software)

I have two brand new Nvidia cards here and I will replace the ATI and 
hopefully remove some of the stuff that was installed.