On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 3:06 PM, pierre <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all > I'm in the way to buy a laptop theses days and would know if someone could > give me a good advice, > I need to install a debian (or ubuntu) system on it. > I'll use the laptop for audio/video liveshows with pd/gem, with many GEM > objects so a good graphic card is needed > I have a max ~900euros budget. > > Short story : > Some years ago a bought an asus a8js with 7700Go nvidia graphic card, > very good performances and linux friendly, worked perfectly with all > debian/ubuntu distros I've used and I've done a lot of lives and works with > it... > BUT ! > This card have burned and damaged all my motherboard ! This is due to a > very bad graphic nvidia (proprietary) driver, explanations here : > > http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/warning-nvidia-19675-drivers-can-kill-your-graphics-card/7551 > > Now a lots of laptop are shipped with ATI cards, so my questions are : > - are ATI cards goods for pd/gem users ? >
ATI cards are less good for Linux users :o/ as support is sparse and sometimes (especially a few years after buying the computer) you may have problems finding a driver. I think a motherboard-burning driver is an exceptional problem which should not repeat anytime soon, so I'd go with Nvidia. Andras
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