DVI output, ATI or nVidia

Jim Cornette fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Wed Jun 27 01:55:37 UTC 2007


Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>> For the sort of thing open source can provide even without actually
>> "fixing" a bug myself, see:
>>
>> http://home.att.net/~Tom.Horsley/easy-linux.html
> 
> Of course, those are many great examples of the benefits of open
> source. It certainly doesn't change the fact that open source bugs
> don't necessarily get fixed any faster than closed source bugs.

It is a lot better to not have to go out and update drivers for every 
kernel release. Personally, I choose open code and specs.
You do have a point that neither bugs experienced in vendor only 
supported drivers and openly available code and known specifications 
ensures someone or group will fix the problem.
> 
> The point here is that someone claimed that going with the open source
> intel drivers means that someone would get better support.  That claim
> is silly because 'support' is a rather vague concept, and my idea of
> support likely differs from someone else's.

I liked the times that I needed to try and work with developers through 
submitting bug reports and testing their proposed solutions. Neither 
upstream developers or RedHat developers seemed to outwardly make one 
feel inferior due to my lesser knowledge of the problems. It was a 
learning experience and the bugs were removed from the Intel driver 
source code once found. With closed source drivers it becomes an 
expedition to find a suitable driver to run hardware in a suitable 
manner. Since Linux distributions vary enough with compilers used and 
their frequency of updates, an open driver which the code can be updated 
and compiled for optimum performance would sell more hardware in my 
view. Of course the sales for closed drivers for hardware probably has 
less impact than I would expect.

I am using a laptop with a radeon card which has some 3D support for the 
particular chipset. The computer with the NVidia card has only 2D with 
the open nv driver. So I would suggest Intel, then radeon, then maybe 
NVidia. SIS, MGA  and S3 for 3D support I am not sure of how well they 
work, if at all. I only tried 2D on those machines to date.

Jim
> 


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