[mythtv-users] Hello all.. i'm the lastest mythnewb looking for advice :D

[Michael T. Dean]

On 09/14/05 14:27, Derek Meek wrote:

>For reference I hate nVidia cards with a burning passion
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>/open source game developer
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>
Well, if you're willing to stick with only having support for the parts 
of the card that have been reverse engineered by open-source developers, 
ATI may be much better.  However, when you're talking about the 
proprietary drivers, NVIDIA's are--without a doubt--much better than ATI's.

As a game developer, you should see the advantage in using NVIDIA's 
proprietary drivers over ATI's proprietary drivers from a simple feature 
comparison.  As I mentioned before--I, like you, am an ATI fan-boy--but, 
until ATI provides proper support for Linux, I'll vote with my wallet.  
There's no sense in buying an expensive video card from ATI and not 
being able to use its features just so you don't have to have an NVIDIA 
card.  At least with the NVIDIA card, you can use its features.  But, 
hey, it's your money...

It's still painful to see my ATI Radeon 9800 Pro working as an expensive 
framebuffer in a Linux box.  I bought it for a system that I could 
dual-boot to Windows for games (so at least I got to use the features 
sometimes), but now that I'm replacing my gaming system, I have a $400 
framebuffer (in a system that doesn't really need a monitor at all)...  
I can't even roll down the gaming box to replace my Myth box for my HDTV 
upgrade because the ATI drivers don't provide the functionality I need.

Mike