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> >take a few things as given and you will see that nvidia are the best
> >choice (maybe the best of a bad bunch, but we are talking practicalities
> >here)
> Can I beg to differ on that point (I have an ATI card)
> >
ah just the man which card do you have and what kind of hassles, if any, getting to use its 3D capabilities/hardware accleration?
I have a radeon 9600pro, so I had to use the proprietary drivers, which was interesting, as I run Debian and they don't supply a .deb package. It took me quite a while to get it to work, including a lot of googoling etc. In the end the key was in ATI's installation instructions - make sure the kernel does not have DRM compiled in. Now it works well, although I don't use that much 3D stuff in linux. Windows is still much better for games (ducking for cover) and as the video card has hardware directx9 support, I kind of want to get the most out of it. I think conflicts with Mesa also need to be watched. The driver replaces Mesa's openGL libraries, so upgrading Mesa can be a bad thing.
HTH
Luuk
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