Re: Choosing a video card

2009-06-18 Thread Aidan Gauland
Thanks for all the advice! This really helps. Thanks again, Aidan

Re: Choosing a video card

2009-06-14 Thread steve
On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 14:58 +1200, dave wrote: On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:44:57 Aidan Gauland wrote: steve wrote: Last time I looked, nVidia support was far better than ATI, and with the availability of the GPU for fun projects, would be my choice. Do you mean that the nVidia GPUs are

Choosing a video card

2009-06-13 Thread Aidan Gauland
Hello, 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

Re: Choosing a video card

2009-06-13 Thread steve
On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 14:30 +1200, Aidan Gauland wrote: Hello, 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

Re: Choosing a video card

2009-06-13 Thread Aidan Gauland
steve wrote: Last time I looked, nVidia support was far better than ATI, and with the availability of the GPU for fun projects, would be my choice. Do you mean that the nVidia GPUs are more open? If not, then what do you mean by availability of the GPU for fun projects? -Aidan

Re: Choosing a video card

2009-06-13 Thread dave
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:44:57 Aidan Gauland wrote: steve wrote: Last time I looked, nVidia support was far better than ATI, and with the availability of the GPU for fun projects, would be my choice. Do you mean that the nVidia GPUs are more open? If not, then what do you mean by

Re: Choosing a video card

2009-06-13 Thread Craig Falconer
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

Re: Choosing a video card

2009-06-13 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Craig Falconercfalco...@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