Re: Best Video Card
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 13:28:09 -0400
"Manaen Schlabach" <manaen.schlabach@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well I am finally thinking about upgrading my tired old radeon 7500.
Can I have that tired old radeon, to replace my very tired matrox
G100? :) But only if it has a working TV-out ;)
> I know that ATI and Nvidia both have decent cards but their drivers
> are completely closed. I know and understand that companies must
> protect some of their trade secrets but I would like very much to
> support a graphics manufacturer who opens their specs as much as
> possible to opensource and free software developers. Having said
> that, what are everyones thoughts about which card that might be? At
> one time it was Matrox are they still the most GNU/Linux friendly out
> there or has someone else taken the lead on that? I wouldn't mind
> supporting ATi/nVidia if they at least opened up their specs on old
> cards (say older than 3 years) do they really have that much to lose
> by doing so?
From what I've heard, at least nvidia's drivers are decent whereas ati
drivers are of lower quality. I mean the closed ones.
Andrei
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