[PLUG] Linux: ATI or nVidia?

[Carlos Konstanski]

I don't have any ATI experience in linux either.  But nvidia has always
been a breeze, and support for the glx driver is in most package
management systems, like portage, apt, etc.  Or you can get the driver
from nvidia's website, and run it with the --force-update switch,
meaninng you never have to get a new driver to keep up to date - running
the old one always gets you the latest driver with NO brain-time.  I run
it every time I build a new kernel (because I have to, as it is a kernel
module).

I think the nvidia driver also supports AMD64.  It sure seemed that way
when I installed it on this 64 bit box they gave me at work.  500 fps -
wow!

Carlos

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, John Jordan wrote:

> Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 17:32:20 -0700
> From: John Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>
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> To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic"
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> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Linux: ATI or nVidia?
> 
> On 25 Jul 2005, at 17:09, Scott Van Hoosen wrote:
>
>> I'm looking to buy a new video card, something with some nice 3D
>> capabilities. I've always bought nVidia cards in the past, but I'm
>> wondering if ATI would be as good or better for Linux. It seems like
>> you get more bang for the buck with ATI now, but I'm not sure (I
>> haven't been up on video cards for a couple years). I know nVidia has
>> closed-source, downloadable drivers for Linux. How are ATI's drivers
>> handled?
>>
>> Suppose you wanted to spend $150 or less on a good video card for
>> Linux, which card on ENU's list would you buy:
>
> I'm far from an expert on the subject, but I went through seven
> stages of hell trying to get the ATI video in a Compaq R4000 laptop
> to work at something besides VESA 1024 x 768. Never
> succeeded. Gave up and returned the laptop to HP. Instead I
> bought an older version of the same laptop that had NVidia video.
> When I installed Ubuntu 5.04 it recognized it and auto-configured it
> at 1650 x 1080. Beautiful.
>
> ATI would have to pay me to take one of their products. And I mean
> a lot of money.
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