ATI Drivers?

[BostonDriver]

I've been "catching up" with existing posts since recently joining this board. I noticed that people have been installing ATI drivers that are different than what comes with their distributions.

I just bought an ATI 128MB PCI Express™ x16 ATI FireGL V3100 and have FC5 & SUSE 10.1 (as well as XP & FreeBSD) installed using just what came with the respective distributions installation. I've never had an adapter until now that wasn't built into the motherboard before.

How much better are the vendor specific drivers? Is it worth using them?

I'm "happy" now, but as I said above, I've only had low end adapters until now. Anything is better than what I used to run with.

Thanks.

[webwolf]

How much better are the vendor specific drivers? Is it worth using them?
That really depends. Are you planning on useing 3d opengl games (like tuxracer), if so you will want the propreitary drivers. Even so the preformance is often better. You can however switch back and forth by editing xorg.conf