The ATI drivers are ok, just a pain to install and get working (same under windows) NVIDIA have always had much easier drivers (in my experiance)
This wasn't supposed to become a card brand vs card brand war (i hope anyway) I've given my suggestion, and the reasons for it, and even with a binary driver, at least there is a good driver for the card which you can use to play more complex games or 3d graphics if need be. On 6/27/05, Matthew Hannigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 03:28:03AM +1000, Harald Ashburner wrote: > > Assertion 1: There is no decent open source drivers for 3D video cards > > Assertion 2: If you want decent 3D, use NVidia cards and NVidia binary > > only drivers (despite ethical reservations and the extra difficulties > > of kernel debugging etc) > > > > Anyone care to take issue with either of those? > > Please? > > Yes, neither are absolutes. > > 1. What's decent? Are you playing tux racer or quake3? > Open source are often good enough. They only lack when playing > high end games. I don't think Erik is interested in those. > > 2. Recent story on slashdot says the latest (9 Jun 2005) binary drivers for > ATI cards are pretty good. Haven't tried them myself. I can't be > bothered with binary drivers mostly. > > Matt > > > > > > > > -- Menno Schaaf aka ginji irc.austnet.org #gentoo #linux-help -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
