nvidia or ati ?

[Robin Laing]

Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 17:29:23 +0100,
>   Richard Gelling <uselinux34 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>>On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 11:09 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 16:29:39 +0200,
>>>  Rakotomandimby Mihamina <mihamina.rakotomandimby at etu.univ-orleans.fr> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>I am going ti buy a brand new computer, and would like to know if it is
>>>>better either to have a nVidia or an ATI graphic card.
>>>
>>>If you were think of getting a less expensive card, the ATI 9200 will work
>>>with free drivers. There is a project to have free drivers for later ATI
>>>cards, but you should go looking for the current status of that project
>>>to make sure it is far enough along for you before committing to using a
>>>ATI model.
>>>
>>
>>I have found the Nvidia 3D drivers easier to install
> 
> 
> The free ATI drivers come as part of the xorg package. You don't have to do
> anything to install them.
> 

Does the xorg driver provide 3d in the newest ATI cards?

I went through video card hell on a new computer with ATI trying to 
use the ATI binary drivers as well.  Never did see 3d on the card.

Installed FC4 on two computers (desktop and laptop) a few weeks ago. 
Worked out of the box.

Installed the nVidia binaries from livna and all is great.  Of course 
I could tweak some and maybe get things better but that takes time 
which is harder to find.

I dumped ATI for nVidia.  A friend of mine just did the same in the 
Windows world.

I won't even consider ATI any more.

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