Re: [gentoo-user] Ati or Nvida

[Bill Roberts]

This is my first time replying to a thread using gmail, so I apologize
in advance if It ends up on the  wrong end of the thread.

There seems to be a big change coming in graphics: Intel is coming out
towards the end of the year with a motherboard with integrated
graphics that will be competitive with the graphics provided by nvidia
and ati cards.

I am guessing that soon graphics for most applications will be
provided in the same way that sound, ethernet, usb and others, which
used to be provided by extension cards, are provided to most users
today, as an integrated part of the motherboard.

The days when ATI and NVIDIA can rack up huge profits selling cards
for two, three, or four times the cost of a motherboard, are coming to
a close. I'm sure there will always be a market for high end graphics
cards, but for most of us, the graphics on the new motherboards will
fill the bill.

I'm hanging on with an old AGP nvidia 6600GT and relatively obsolete
motherboard in anticipation of better solutions coming soon.

Bill Roberts

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 9:32 PM, fire-eyes <sgtphou@×××××××××.org> wrote:
> Platoali wrote:
>>
>> Well, last night the graphic card of my laptop got broken. So I'm
>> considering to replace it with a workstation for some graphic
>> applications (Mainly blender and gimp.) I need 3d acceleration, and my
>> poor laptop was rendering for hours to get my job done. So I decide to
>> buy a workstation instead a laptop. I want to ask, which graphic cards
>>  are better supported in Linux. I know that ATI have freed or in the
>> process of freeing their graphic cards driver. But I did not have any
>> good memory from my previous experience with ATI. My previous card was
>> ATI radeon 9600m and it never worked the way  it had to  until broken.
>> I want to know, what is the current status of ATI drivers in Linux?
>> Does the problems have been solved? Can they compete with Nvidia?
>>
>> And I want to know which one is better supported in Linux kernel
>> regardless of how much open/free  the drivers is. I'm currently
>> thinking between Nvidia Quadro fx 1700 and Ati firegl 5600. Does
>> anyone have any comment about them?
>
> ATI's drivers have been buggy to the point that I avoid them 100% of the
> time when using linux. In multiple systems, using their drivers means that
> my system will hard hang 100% of the time when exiting xorg in any way. Such
> as logging out, killing xorg, rebooting, etc.
>
> Nvidias drivers are far more stable in linux, I would strongly suggest going
> that route. I do not know the specifics of those cards, sorry.
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