<major snip> Any binary driver in my book is bad, I hope you don't plan on using mythtv, or anything that requires xvmc on any new Nvidia card. I wouldn't start mentioning driver support under Windows either. If you did not clean out the existing drivers under windows you proably have leftovers. This goes for ATI, as well as Nvidia. I seem to see lots of posts about bad performance as well on Nvidia products.
I seem to have the opposite reaction, I switched to a x1950 pro 512, from a 6600gt due to driver issues. For some reason I had major problems with texture corruption under Debian with Nvidia drivers with quake 4. I had to switch to Ubuntu amd64 before quake 4 would run without texture issues with my 6600gt. You can search the group for more details. It was really weird, as quake 4 was the only game that had corrupt textures, utk4 did not, as well as the open source games such as warsow. I bet if I switch back I probably won't have any texture issues with my card now. Personally If you go by pure binary installers I would say that ATI has a better installer. You can tell it to build .deb according to distro, like etch, sid, and edgy, fiesty. Then you just have to install them with dpkg -i, call module-assistant. I literally don't see a problem, unless you want to install compiz, or beryl. In either case you will want to use module-assistant, so if one slacks ATI, the same could be said about Nvidia. Now if your talking about openGL performance then Nvidia usually has an edge from what I have seen. But the games I play, I usually have most eye candy turned low, I just like smooth frame rates over low fps anyday. The truth of the story is their is no ideal graphics card for gnu/linux if you use Open Source drivers you suffer from lack of 3d performance in games. If you use binary you have a harder install for the modules, but better performance. So you literally have to choose your poison, I just don't like the way Nvidia is acting lately. so I won't reward them with a purchase. Gnu_Raiz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
