On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 02:06 +0300, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Hi, > > I'll go with NVidia if you don't care about open source drivers. They > have excellent support in dual screen support. > Intel... not very good support. good drivers, but I had my share of a > garbage cursor on the 2nd screen. > ATI/AMD - Pretty good but PRAY that your card is supported in their > latest drivers or else if you find a bug on an older drivers > (discontinued card), then that's your problem :) > > Good luck > Hetz
While I'm using nVidia (on a large number of machines) I'm thinking about switching to AMD/ATI. A couple of reasons. A. Having an OSS driver is big plus. While it may or may not use the OSS driver, having the -option- to use an OSS drivers when the binary driver fails and/or you're trying to use unsupported software/OS combo * should be taken into account. If you use nVidia, you're limited to what-ever OS/arch/etc nVidia chose for you. B. The current driver family (16x.xx and 17x.xx) has miserable 2D performance. In nVidia's defense, they are working hard to solve these problems, but as it stands, my 11 y/o PII233/MAC64 laptop, with it's patched DRI driver, literally run circles around my 2xE5335/GF9800GTX workstation in 2D. C. nVidia is a -very- annoying tendency to kill the support for older cards unexpectedly - switching to very problematic legacy drivers. And as you're limited to binary drivers, once nVidia drops to the support for your card, you're screwed. As it stand, if you only require 2D with limited 3D (Read: compiz and friends) an older ATI card (r300/r400-based **) should suite you best. Make sure you do some digging (@google) on the target card before buying it. - Gilboa * Xen under both Linux and Solaris, FreeBSD/AMD64, PPC/PPC64/SPARC/etc. ** 9800*, X300/600/800. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
