On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 17:25 +0000, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
On 28/10/2007, Matthew Saltzman <mjs(a)clemson.edu> wrote:
> In the past, I have found that Nvidia has been pretty good compared with
> other manufacturers (especially ATI) about their proprietary drivers.
> Now that ATI is opening their drivers, I will be seriously considering
> them in the future. I'm stuck with the laptop for a while, though 8^(.
At this point in time I have purged my life of all nvidia cards in
favour of intel which have OSS drivers contributed by Intel. They may
not be high end gaming cards, but they work damn well under linux, and
so I'd recommend them highly if that is an option for you.
I'll look at them too for my next machines, but for my home machines, I
like the 3D capability, and as I said, for the laptop, I don't get a
choice. (The T61 has an Intel video option, and I wish the powers that
be had chosen it, but they didn't, and I didn't know it was going to
turn out to be such a hassle.)
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs