On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Roger Searle <[email protected]> wrote: > steve wrote: >> >> On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 13:35 +1300, Hadley Rich wrote: >> >> >>>> >>>> On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 13:25 +1300, Vik Olliver wrote: >>>> I'd say go for an Intel rather than an Nvidia. No end of grief with >>>> Nvidia drivers under Ubuntu. >>>> >>> >>> I've not had problems with the Nvidia drivers on Ubuntu myself. >>> >>> hads >>> >> >> Nor have I for a number of years, and that includes the ancient versions >> that I run on a 7 year old tosh lappie which is happily running KK. >> >> Steve >> > > My previous endless/frequent nvidia grief came to an end at Intrepid and a > reinstall (rather than upgrade) and has "just worked" ever since.
I must say my preference for nVidia graphics cards is in part because I am a mythtv and xbmc user, both of which use vdpau nVidia graphics acceleration, enabling me to (for example) play a 1080p h264 movie on a P4 2.8GHz machine. Very impressive nVidia. (I do know the arguments for and against their closed driver model, and take a pragmatic approach. If Intel or ATI can do the same with open drivers, bring it on!)
