Re: Graphics card ?
- From: Darren Salt <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 11:43:21 +0100
I demand that Aragorn may or may not have written...
[snip]
As I (mis)understand it, Intel is now also moving into the market for
plug-in video adapters, and most (if not all) of their hardware is
supported via FOSS drivers. If I were you, I'd examine that possibility
first before going for nVidia or ATi.
The latter has now been bought by AMD and although AMD wants to release the
ATi drivers as FOSS, they can't do that just yet for now as the drivers
still contain proprietarily licensed code, and they would be in violation
of the pertaining copyrights if they were to release that code to the
public. So they'll have to rewrite the whole thing from scratch first, and
up until then, ATi drivers are still proprietary, and even (far) worse in
quality than those of nVidia, due to the fact that ATi has always had far
fewer driver developers on their team than nVidia.
You're making it sound like all ATI cards require proprietary drivers (for
3D)... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon#Linux
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