On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 23:14 -0700, William H Lugg wrote:
I don't have time right now to get the number you requested, but will in a day or two. I would STRONGLY advise against the purchase of an ATI card. While I find performance to be fine, their support of Linux is not nearly as seemless as NVidia. The machine with the ATI card took about 30 minutes to get the video working properly on, and only after some much appreciated help from Joe Morris, also on this list.
Everybody has their good and bad experience, and thus opinions on both cards. nVidia is ahead of ATi as far as the binary drivers go, simply because they've been doing it for longer. Way back when they started supplying the drivers, for the first couple of years, getting it running was a hit and miss affair. Search the list archives of 3-4 years ago and you'll see. nVidia's driver is quite good now, but I think the main reason why we're seeing so few problems with nVidia now is the way that SUSE has integrated the installation in YOU - I was blown away by how smooth that went. ATi has made a lot of progress, their drivers have gotten a lot better and the installation have gotten a lot easier. I just wish SUSE would put the same effort into integrating the ATi driver installer into YOU. -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Technical Consultant SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp@sagacit.com Office: 011 326 3950 Mobile: 084 220 2443 www.sagacit.com