On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 10:03 -0700, Garrett P. Taylor wrote:

> 
> Again for Video, I suggest nVidia. The open source driver for Linux
> gives excellent performance and if you compile it yourself to take
> advantage of your systems specific architecture it will run faster than
> a Windows Box. ATi also provides linux drivers and perform well, but
> there's just something about matching your chipset to your video card.
> 

I agree that nVidia makes some great cards, but the open source xorg
driver doesn't support 3D acceleration last I checked, nor any of the
bells and whistles that the chipset supports (genlock, quad buffering,
stereo, etc). The nVidia driver supplied from nVidia is closed source
for x86 and x86-64, and only has a wrapper to recompile the driver's
hooks for your current kernel version. 

Mark

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