[wellylug] NVidia vs. ATI

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On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 16:46:27 +1300 (NZDT), Jamie Dobbs wrote:
> Which do people find performs better under Linux?
> I'm currently running an ATI9600 and find that its performanace under
> Linux is substantially below how it runs in Windows.
> Are peoples experiences with the Nvidia cards the same, or is it only the
> ATI cards that suffer like this?
> 

ATI support for anything other than 2D has been pretty poor, but the
x.org people are making rapid progress with fully open-source drivers
now that they have split from the old Xfree crowd.  Check out the
latest release notes or CVS at freedesktop.org.

Might be a short-term vs. long-term decision to make here (I see Brent
said the same thing).

FWIW, I have a very cheap ATI Mach 64 card, which works moderately
well with the open-source ATI driver (no 3D in Debian's X yet, but
x.org are onto it).  I like not having to rely on the vendor to update
a binary driver when major kernel versions change (or, for example,
when udev gets changed, or page-table size gets altered, ...).

-- 
Tony (echo 'spend!,pocket awide' | sed 'y/acdeikospntw!, /l at omcgtjuba.phi/')