>>>>> "h" == hajhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
h> I've avoided NVIDIA's video cards like the plague for the last few h> years, because I really dislike the idea of being tied to a proprietary h> driver. Well, I've been down this road many times in the past. I've had both nvidia and ati cards at various times... At least nvidia *offers* a driver! In the end, when I've tried the OSS vs proprietary drivers the proprietary ones are *always* better when it comes to 3D acceleration. I've used both, but it's always something like Google Earth that makes me go switch to NVidia's. For Fedora, both the atrms and the livna repositories distributes the pre-compiled drivers so a yum update should grab them. (Yes, I realize I'm speaking to a largely Debian crowd). The biggest problem with the commercial drivers is that at some point their installation system drops support for older cards and you have to make sure you start grabbing the backwards-compatibility snapshot instead (again, the rpm repositories above distributes compat versions too). FYI, I do have my mythtv box up and running (and love it) and I did end up using nvidia drivers for it to get the SVideo output on the card to work. My older box that was my test case for my myth box before I built it completely also has a old nvidia card in it and it's yet to have fallen "out of support" although it's fairly old at this point (old enough I don't remember when I got it, though I'd bet 4-5 years). -- "In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap, and much more difficult to find." -- Terry Pratchett _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
