[moved to -chat] On Wednesday 14 March 2007 08:16, Kip Macy wrote: > Please be very careful. The only real alternative (Intel comes and > goes) is Nvidia whose driver is binary-only for i386 (no amd64 > support) and has a history for being notoriously buggy. I only buy ATI > because of the problems I keep seeing people have with the Nvidia > driver. I have a friend who has basically abandoned his dual-head > Nvidia card due to recurring issues.
Well, the open source 2d only stuff works for more modern nvidia chipsets I believe (although I don't have a 7800 or 8800 to test it with). I have had a few issues with the nvidia binary driver but by in large it works very well. I'd prefer open source support too but I don't think it's an especially realistic dream (for full 3d support from a modern card). -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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