Which graphic card is better for linux? VOTE NOW!

archsvile · Apprentice Joined: 16 Jun 2004 Posts: 164 Location: PA

Well is nvidia or ati better? i think nvidia is :twisted:

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BlackEdder · Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 4:34 pm Post subject:

I've got an ati from the time I thought I would be happy running winxp with litestep. But then I discovered gentoo, still sorry I didn't know better at the time

feld · Guru Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 593 Location: USA

nvidia until ati puts out decent drivers

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codergeek42 · Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 4:49 pm Post subject:

nVidia's drivers put ATi's drivers (or lack thereof-however you want to look at it) to shame...
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Ryle · Apprentice Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 204

Hehe, kinda goes without saying.

Headrush · Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 7:10 pm Post subject:

I can't say they are always the top performer or have the best image quality, (they looked fine to me), but I have found Nvidia cards and drivers to be much more stable on both Windows and Linux.

Ever since switching to Linux, I have used only Nvidia cards with minimal problems. (Needed to use a ~x86 driver instead of x86 when switched to a 2.6 kernel)

xanas3712 · Guru Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 455

I"ve used NVIDIA and ATI cards and I think ATI is fine now in windows honestly, but in Linux they have a LOT of work to do.

John5788 · Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 7:51 am Post subject:

whoever voted ATi needs to be castrated
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Imek · Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 8:25 am Post subject:

This topic has been done to death and beaten constantly for as long as I can remember. Maybe there should be a sticky or something in the/an FAQ.
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Lepaca Kliffoth · Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 9:09 am Post subject:

nvidia
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Rainmaker · Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:35 am Post subject:

tsunam · Retired Dev Joined: 23 Feb 2004 Posts: 343

Ati OSS drivers > Ati Closed Binaries. nuff said....about ati in its nutshell.

If you want just 2d it doesn't matter..3d..nvidia all the way

UB|K · Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:07 pm Post subject:

Admiral LSD · Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 5:45 pm Post subject:

It doesn't matter, Linux is crap for games
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Imek · Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 6:38 pm Post subject:

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Admiral LSD · Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 7:00 pm Post subject:

meh...

My ATi card is staying firmly put until Linux delivers something that's actually worth playing.

Doom 3 and AA both fail on that count.
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KrzychuG · n00b Joined: 09 Oct 2004 Posts: 46 Location: Torun, Poland

Nvidia for now, but everything depends on ATI drivers. Currently i'm using ATI graphic card and gatos drivers and it works fine

Wedge_ · Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 7:29 pm Post subject:

dumpsterm0uth · n00b Joined: 26 Feb 2003 Posts: 45

nvidia deff, i have an ati now though

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RSay · Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 3:25 am Post subject:

I had an ATI card on my desktop and spent around 20 hours trying to get it working properly. I read easily over 50 threads in the forums because of various problems little and big. (DRI problems almost made me give up on linux) I finally bought an nvidia card and set aside a weekend that I was going to use to get it running. On Friday night, I put in the nvidia card in and followed the steps in the Gentoo manual. I had it working in about 10 minutes without spending hours and hours reading the forums.

My laptop has an ATI card and everything works great on the laptop except the card. (TV out = nightmare). I dream of the day when I can afford to replace it.

wishkah · Guru Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 441 Location: de

I never installed GNU/Linux on a machine with ATI gfx, but I'm quite satisfied with nvidia's drivers/support/tools.
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