On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 16:50, Matt W. wrote: > Hey, just wondering if anyone has a definite preference between ATI or > nVidia when *only* considering linux drivers; I'm not interested in > performance comparisons. I understand nVidia offers binary drivers and that > they have gone farily well but I'm not sure what ATI offers. From what I've > seen on their web site, I've only seen .rpms, do they offer other ways of > installing their drivers? > > Recent experiences would be nice.
I prefer ATI. nVidia has binary-only drivers for whatever reason. ATIs drivers are open source. Not all ATI cards are supported, but my 7500 works great. 3D works out of the box. Mine is dual-head and that was pretty easy to set up, but for now you loose DRI (and hence GL) when you enable Xinerama, so that's a tradeoff. I don't recall where the list of supported cards is, but it's out there. Really my only beef w/ nVidia is the lack of open source drivers. 2D always works out of box on nVidia with the nv driver. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
