On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 05:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > but the modules are just binaries; ATI seems, at least until now, to be > more related with the Open Source world and also some of them have > tv-output utilities....
oh, yeah, probably no one has an opinion on this. if you browse the archives of this list or any other OSS-type list or site, you'll see plenty of debate on this issue. IIRC correctly, the main argument against ATI and for nVidia is that ATI's drivers are community developed because ATI is not supportive to the Community, and nVidia provides relatively high quality binaries, which is rare. And when you consider windows drivers are almost never released as source (excluding creative, of course)... There are good arguments for nVidia to open up their source, but it seems like there are ideological flaws with the way each company deals with drivers. I think in the end, any card post-GeForce2, ATI or nVidia is gonna really fly on just about whatever you throw at it for a while to some. Read some reviews and make a choice, I think either way you're gonna be pleased with a new vid card. anandtech and tomshardware both do reviews with way too much info for the common man (c), but they are well respected and thorough, and tend to show >=GeForce2 on top. But like I said, either is gonna give great performance.
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