Daniel If I got it right, Amos want to use the graphic card now not next year and in my experience NVIDIA cards work fine now using their proprietary drivers. I am no fan of proprietary software but unfortunately there aren't many choices on the market that works. Intel graphics is awesome on laptop, but unfortunately I don't think there is any motherboard with Intel IGP and dual-head monitor support. I don't want to accuse AMD/ATI but I think if they really wanted their platform to be free and open, they should have tried Intel's path.
Regards, Masood On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Masood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have a NVIDIA 8500 on my Hardy and it works fine in dual-monitor > > mode. I hate the fact the driver is proprietary but so is AMD's. > > AMD / ATI have released the specifications for their cards, including 3D > support, which puts them back in the position they were in some years > ago. While you probably still want the binary ATI driver for cutting > edge hardware today you can expect, probably within the year, that you > will be using a solid and stable open source ATI driver. > > You cannot expect the same thing with NVIDIA, despite the amazing > efforts of the Renouveau project to reverse engineer their hardware. > > Unless you have a *very* compelling reason today an ATI card is a vastly > better investment and will support companies who are responsive to the > open source community (ATI and AMD) rather than, well, NVIDIA. > > Regards, > Daniel > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
