> Von: "Gideon N. Guillen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Datum: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 09:47:27 +0800 > > On 10/24/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Really? I checked my PC Xpress pricelist of 19. October. It > > shows PowerColor branded 9250's ranging from PHP 2,000 to > [snipped] > > He probably means the cheapest that has good Linux support. At least > according to people in many forums, Linux drivers and support for ATI > cards suck, wether it's the open source driver or the ATI's binary > only driver. "Suck" is a strong word. Google for "mplayer nvidia crap" (see below). > nVidia, on the other hand, has much, much better Linux support. He (the author of the parent post I was replying to) had stated he was not a "gamer." The supposedly better Linux support for nVidia cards (which I dispute) only matters when you're playing 3D games of the near Toy Story variety. I ditched my last nVidia card because of problems with watching videos on it (XVideo extension). I also remember the hell I went through trying to get the Linux framebuffer to play nice with the binary drivers. There may have been a fix for the problem somewhere. But it was definitely not a simple case of loading and unloading modules.
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