At 07:05 AM 7/3/2008, Clayton wrote:

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I think you'll get somewhat more recommendations for NVidia than for ATI, but as I say, that's only germane if 3D applications are in your repertoire.

I have nVidia on my main computer, and API on my secondary. Neither were difficult to set up in openSUSE. The online repositories were easy to add, and once you have the binary driver installed from the repository, driver updates match the kernel updates so it all "just works" after a kernel update.

On each of my installs I have gone though the steps to set on line updates sources and repositories. Are the Video Binaries loaded automatically? I have never specifically installed a Video Binary

Both cards worked out of the box using the open source drivers, but I do definitely get better desktop performance using the binaries. This isn't for wobbly windows... just the basics (without desktop effects) like scroll in in a browser is better with the binary drivers on both cards.

I find I have crisper and shaper desktop fonts on the nVidia card, but that may simply be because the computer with the ATI card is running KDE3.5.9 on openSUSE 10.3 and the computer with the nVidia card is running on openSUSE 11.0 and KDE4. I did notice a significant screen font quality increase after moving to openSUSE 11.0... that might be KDE4... that might be just 11.0 being a much improved release... not sure :-)

I will be using both as well...

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