On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 13:44 -0500, mrxgerman wrote: > It's better to have an nvidia or an ati graphiccark. I've always bought ATI cards because of their open-source drivers. For a while these were a bit sketchy, but AMD is now releasing more info for devs, and the drivers are advancing nicely. Of course this is from the perspective of someone who doesn't really do a lot of gaming. For 2D rendering, compiz, hardware accelerated video etc, the Radeon drivers are very good. Also I've got a Geforce 4 MX here at work and I can't upgrade to xserver-1.5 because nVidia haven't released drivers for it yet, and it's unclear whether they ever will ( it's in the 'legacy' category that they don't like to support ). I understand a lot of people here poo-poo ATI's drivers and are even more critical of the open-source radeon drivers. I suppose the point is that it's possible to fix the radeon drivers looking forward, whereas with an nVidia you're always dependant on them to fix things for you, and to release a driver that will work with a recent xserver. Dan
