nvidia or ati ?

[tlc]

On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 06:38 -0700, Michael Peters wrote:

> I have to recommend against using the nvidia binary driver.
> Sometimes it is good, sometimes it ain't so good.
> 
> For example - I was experiencing a crash (segfault) in grep and slowness in balsa.
> When using nv.ko (the open source driver) - grep did not segfault and balsa was fine.
> 
are you certain nothing else changed? I have been using the nvidia
driver since RH7 and have never heard of anything like that.

> I think some of the onboard Intel cards have good open source 3D acceleration.
> Probably not as good as NVidia is capable of, but better than nothing.
> 
I have not had much luck with the onboard intel cards, but I also have
never tried tweaking anything.