Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Installing BDI

Steve Blackmore wrote:

> On Wed, 05 Jun 2002 23:58:12 +0000, you wrote:
>
> >ATI cards are notorious for problems,
>
> Jon - Where do you get that from? Is that Linux or Microsoft?

I am a member of some other lists related to Cad/CAM, including electronic
cad/cam. A particular package I use for schematic and PCB cad (Protel)
has a lot of trouble with ATI cards. Every week, 2 or 3 people would write
in with trouble with ATI cards. The standard answer was to get some other
fairly high-end cad-grade card, and they usually reported that the constant
crashing of program and/or Windows went away. Now, this doesn't really
mean the ATI cards are bad in some way, just that this particular software
had some sort of incompatibility with ATI's driver, probably. I wouldn't
pay much attention to this, except that this has been going on for YEARS.
I will note that is seems the problems have lightened up a bit, so maybe
ATI has fixed something in their drivers.

That was all from Microsoft Windows OS users. I have also heard some
complaints against ATI in relation to Linux and XFree86, but then the setup
for ANY monitor/video card combination is so problematic that I really don't
think ATI is much worse than any other.

I have very good results with S3-based cards, and also Trident, and stick
mostly with those cards.

Jon