IIUC you don't need the proprietary driver. Assumed you should need it, then NVIDIA is better than ATI, since ATI's proprietary drivers only work for a few versions of X and they drop older cards for drivers that work with latest versions of X. NIVIDA's proprietary driver supports old cards with latest X versions. If you just need the FLOSS driver, in my experiences both, the radeon and the nouveau have good 3D support for usage with Google-Earth, but for using GNOME3/Cinnamon at least my cards are too slow. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user