On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Craig Falconer<cfalco...@totalteam.co.nz> wrote: > Aidan Gauland wrote, On 14/06/09 14:29: >> >> I'm going to skip the narrative, and just cut to the chase: which video >> cards better support Linux, and sleep/hibernate on Linux. It looks as if >> there are better open-source ATI drivers than there are for NVIDIA, but I >> don't know about stability. I'm asking because I need to shop for a new >> video card. I really just care about what works best, and not what is most >> free (as defined by the FSF). > > Hard call. The ATI open source driver is better than the NV one, but > that's only a concern for the OS zealot. The NVidia binary driver works > really quite well, and is packaged in most distros these days, albeit in > some kind of restricted repo or source. > > The other hit against NVidia lately is their bad handling of the substrate > engineering issue. > http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1013947/nvidia-should-defective-chips > http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Nvidia-GPU-failure,6248.html > So while its more aimed at laptops, the issue will exist on all recent > nvidia cards. > > > Personally - get a cheap card and if it breaks, buy another one. Even the > cheap ones will be better than your old card. > Or consider a board replacement to get PCIe if you don't already have it. >
If rendering good quality video is one of your aims then there is only one choice and its an nVidia card that supports vdpau.
