[wellylug] Hardware opinions

[Robin Hinde]

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:33, Jonathan Harker wrote:
> This is no longer true. ATI in fact cooperate with the open source
> community by releasing specs. nVidia refuse to, and continue to develop
> closed-source drivers instead. So actually, ATI is a better choice for
> Linux, since the drivers are potentially better written and supported, and
> also for ideological reasons. This is why XFree86 comes with full 3D
> support for ATI Radeon but not for nVidia cards.
>
> <bait>
> Besides, ATI Radeons are much cooler cards!  :-)
> </bait>

I'll second that - I bought an ATI Radeon 7500LE because it was the fastest 
PCI video card I could buy, with the advantage of not needing a fan ;-) Cool.

Although it was a problem for me to get going, the card itself is well 
supported  by XFree86, although TV out is probably never going to be 
supported properly due to the DCMA and Macrovision; apparently information on 
how to get TVout working cannot be made available to the development 
community.