Re: Graphics card for laptop: nVidia, ATI or Intel?

Jef Driesen wrote:
J.O. Aho wrote:

Closed source:
nVidia has a driver that supports all the current cards, this one can be downloaded from their homepage, requires kernel source installed.
ATi has a driver that supports most of their current cards, this one can be downloaded from their homepage.

How is the quality and performance of the ATI driver compared to the one from nVidia?
I have used the nVidia drivers before (both windows and linux), but I never had an ATI card. A few years ago, when I bought my desktop system, the nVidia Linux drivers where no match for ATI (at least thats what I concluded from the information on the web). Has this changed in the meantime?

Not completely, the ATi driver still have the trouble to be more difficult to install and the driver don't get all out of the graphics card, but the driver is getting better with each version and the release rate has increased since AMD took over ATi (the handful soul Linux department has grown in size, maybe not as large as nVidias). There seems to be some bugs in the latest driver that hasn't been fixed even if they been around for long.
Of the closed source drivers, the nVidia one is still the king.

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//Aho
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