From: Brian Furtaw (brian++at++sgi.com)
Date: 09/02/2003 09:29:22
Jason,
I thought I was just missing something but I have had the same
experience with ATI cards and Linux drivers. Nvidia is still way ahead
of the game in Linux support.
Brian
Jason Daly wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 04:03, Marc Mendez wrote:
>
>>pfHello everyone,
>>
>>I was wondering about ATI cards. I ve always used nvidia chips-based
>>ones and when I talk with gamers they all appear to prefer ATI Radeon
>>cards, maybe they're worth it 8) No ?
>>
>>So has anyone led some testing comparison that could reveal that one or
>>the other is faster, stability, ... on a Linux box of course ?
>
>
> The general rumbling I've picked up (from various mailing lists as well
> as limited personal experience) is that Nvidia's Linux support is far
> ahead of ATi's. The one box we got with an ATi card had a lot of
> problems with stability and rendering errors until we replaced the card
> with a GeForceFX. ATi does have Linux drivers, but they don't yet
> support XFree86 4.3 (Red Hat 9), and I've heard (not certain) that they
> haven't yet released a driver for the Radeon 9800 (only the 9700 and
> lower).
>
> So, I'd stick with Nvidia until they start putting more effort into
> supporting Linux
>
> --"J"
>
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