Manaen Schlabach wrote: > Well I am finally thinking about upgrading my tired old radeon 7500. > 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? >
You may also be interested to know that at the propriertary drivers from Nvidia make it quite hard if not impossible to put a system into hibernation made, sleep mode, or suspend mode. The nv drivers work, the ones from ATI as well. But not Nvidia's. There ACPI implementation... well... sucks, a bit. I use Ubuntu on my work laptop, which recognizes both well known models of video cards: ATI and Nvidia. (And ofcourse a lot more.) They are all good enough to at least allow me to work decently. Eye candy? Don't need it. 3D? Also not needed. As for Debian: I use that for the real work: Serving. No need for a video card except for installing Debian the first time.. 0.02€ Mark -- http://www.maas-martin.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
