On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 11:46:34 -0700, Robin Laing <Robin.Laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This is not new. Older cards are not supported in todays linux. > Either by the kernel or by the X server. One of the things that > forced me to get a new computer. That may betrue for cards that have binary drivers, but it does not appear to be true for cards that had open source drivers. > At least nVIDIA is working towards linux support with driver > development. I believe on their WWW site I read that they have made a > common code base for their cards and drivers between Windows and > Linux. I have also read about people that have bad support from ATI > even in the Windows environment. The following is more political than concrete. I think that developing binary drivers for Linux is not all that helpful. I would much rather see the specs released and have someone else write open source drivers. I plan on only buying video cards that have open source drivers. > For me, the time wasted getting an ATI card to sort of work to getting > an nVIDIA card to work was well worth the loss I took on the 9600. > Days over minutes is my experience. When I say 30 minutes from > purchase to working it is the truth. I looked at the time on my > receipt after getting the card working and was shocked at how easy it > was to get the nVIDIA card working. Well with the 9600, you get the worst of both worlds. A binary driver, plus poor support (as observed from comments I have seen, not personal experience) from the vendor. > If you look at the nVIDIA site, you will see that there are only 4 > drivers for video cards and that is based on BSD or type of processor. > There is no difference between cards. How much easier can it get? Getting the driver with X in the first place.
