On Mon, 14 May 2007 20:51:03 +0200, you wrote: > >>Yes, what you say is all true: we can take it up with vendors for >>driver support or purchase NVidi a graphics cards. But the far more >>realistic alternative is just switch to Linux and not deal with it. >>From the point of view of a desktop, it's the best of all possible >>worlds: it's like Unix and o ne enjoys tons of software, open source or >>otherwise, your hardware will generally work, and there' s a huge user >>base. It's called the network effect: > >How does switching to Linux help here? > >- Does any of the Linux installations come with a pre-installed > 3D accelerated graphics?
Yes. Fedora ships will 3D accelerated support on the latest Intel chipsets, which I believe will run Compiz, as Intel is actively helping develop the open source drivers in Xorg for thier chips. >- What happened again if you installed such a driver and tried to > upgrade X/the kernel/etc? For Intel, nothing as the driver is part of Xorg. With Fedora you can use the 3rd party rpms from freshrpms.net that use dkms to automatically recompile the kernel drivers with every kernel change which means kernel changes are not an issue unless the kernel changes something (not very common). >At least Solaris provides a working, accelerated nVidia driver Which is one reason I am trying out Solaris, but even with Linux there are ways to minimize the inconvenience as mentioned above. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
