DVI output, ATI or nVidia: back to the main point

[Mario Rossi]

Hi,

Thanks everybody for all the useful mails about open source/binary drivers.
My original point was:

1)I'm running X on a laptop with an ATI card (for which there must be
some sort of open source driver, since X works without fglrx).
2)ATI has dropped support for my graphics card in the latest releases
of their driver (the laptop was not even 3 years old, when it
happened)
3)The last fglrx supporting my card does not work with the latest
version of the kernel
4)Because of that, I cannot use the S-Video output any more (there is
a driver called GATOS, but I've never managed to make it work)
5)I don't want it to happen again with the PC I'm about to buy.

>From all the mails, and some goggleing, I've understood that Intel
produces cards that are fully supported by Linux, while nVidia's are
better (if you use a binary only driver).

Since I want to

1) watch movies
2) watch movies on an external TV via DVI or S-Video (e.g. BBC HD,
from a DVB-T card)
3) not much else

I think Intel is good enough.