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siuchi   07-16-2008 at 09:00:10 PM

Can 4870 run on Ubuntu?
My 2900pro does not run on ubuntu pretty well. The fans is extremely noisy and sometime force reload of the xorg.

Wanna know if this happen on 4870 as well ? Or else

thx

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fugben   07-16-2008 at 09:25:01 PM
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ubuntu? sounds like some african country

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Shedimus   07-16-2008 at 09:28:14 PM
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My 3870 works fine on Ubuntu and Xubuntu!

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rodney_ws   07-16-2008 at 09:32:00 PM
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fugben wrote :

ubuntu? sounds like some african country


*rolls eyes*

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fugben   07-16-2008 at 09:33:53 PM
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oh actually Ubuntu is a free, Debian derived Linux-based operating system, available with both community and professional support, that adds regular releases

WHO KNEW?!?!?

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skittle   07-16-2008 at 09:40:23 PM
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Yes, it is the sickly offspring of the thoroughbred debian. Its only successful because of debians amazing package management system.

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"Hey I don't get you people, the people on insanely mac were so much nicer"
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dragabain   07-16-2008 at 09:42:56 PM
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@skittle:

Yes it is a spin off of Debian. Why are you bad mouthing it? Unless you give a reason why its "sickly" your point is moot. Please stop flaming something for the sake of flaming it.

@siuchi:
It should. You might have to wait for a new driver release to get the full feature set, or maybe a beta exists now.

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FrozenGpu   07-16-2008 at 09:45:29 PM
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dragabain wrote :

@skittle:

Yes it is a spin off of Debian. Why are you bad mouthing it? Unless you give a reason why its "sickly" your point is moot. Please stop flaming something for the sake of flaming it.

@siuchi:
It should. You might have to wait for a new driver release to get the full feature set, or maybe a beta exists now.



linux fight!

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!!!!!!! :lol:

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terror112   07-16-2008 at 10:14:43 PM
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Let the Linux Battle for SUPREMACY over the 4870 BEGIN!

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San Pedro   07-16-2008 at 10:21:08 PM
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From my experience ATI linux drivers are horrendous. I could never get them to work right/well. If you're only running linux or do a lot of gaming on linux I'd go with a nvidia card.

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FrozenGpu   07-16-2008 at 10:34:33 PM
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San Pedro wrote :

From my experience ATI linux drivers are horrendous. I could never get them to work right/well. If you're only running linux or do a lot of gaming on linux I'd go with a nvidia card.



:pfff:

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mathiasschnell   07-16-2008 at 10:39:57 PM
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I'm 99% sure that both Nvidia and ATI periodically release proprietary drivers for use with Linux distros. Also, there are open source versions of drivers for both Nvidia and ATI cards. How they all compare in stability and performance, I'm not sure, but I do know that proprietary drivers tend to do better performance-wise and that for advanced graphical effects you must use the proprietary drivers.

That said, if you want to run ATI cards on Ubuntu you should probably be looking for both kinds of drivers, open source and proprietary, and try out each. See which one works better for you. More than likely, the proprietary one will as it comes straight from the company and so it's tested, up to date, stable, etc. Not saying open source drivers aren't, but I would think they're not as good and take a while to get just right.

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evilshuriken   07-16-2008 at 10:42:52 PM
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I don't mean to sound like an ass, but I've gotten every ATI card I've ever come across working fine under ubuntu. There is one exception, a FireGL-X1 and the issues I had with that I also had under windows... in fact it ran more stable under ubuntu.

If you can't get your card working you need to "lurk moar" and "learn to ubuntu".

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jaysins   07-16-2008 at 10:58:11 PM
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Short answer is yes though not quite up to snuff. The card still performs well and better driver support is expected in less than a month as ATI still only has a beta the cards official drivers, 8.7. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?p [...] 4870&num=9

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doomsdaydave11   07-16-2008 at 11:09:41 PM
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fugben wrote :

ubuntu? sounds like some african country

That's because it is African.

 

I needed to boot to the 7.10 LiveCD to move some files over from my crashed windows yesterday. Though I didn't install any drivers for it, it worked fine. No fan/heat/corruption issues.

 

------------------------------ E8400 3.6Ghz | 4GB DDR2-800 | HD4870 | 780GB HDD Space | VX550W | WinXP | Win7-64 | Ubuntu Studio 8.10

 

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