video boards-3d acceleration

[Rob Park]

A.J. Bonnema wrote:
> Hi, a bit confused here. I thought I read ATI doesn't support Linux that 
> well. Nvidia does, albeit closed source. I use Nvidia which works fine 
> (thanks to the hints in this list).

The way I understand it is that nvidia has better closed-source drivers 
for linux, but jealously guards their hardware, making an open source 
driver basically impossible.

ATI, on the other hand, releases crappy closed-source drivers, but 
releases hardware specs for their older models, making open-source 
drivers possible.

Suffice it to say, I have a radeon 9000, and whatever driver Fedora 
automatically detected and chose to use for my card works great in 
tuxracer, I didn't have to install anything extra after the base install 
to get good 3d working.