Nvidia, Intel, and clout

[Robin Laing]

Bill Gradwohl wrote:
> I've been on this list since early FC1, and Nvidia issues appear to be a 
> major problem area. I have no need for high end graphics as all the 
> Linux boxes we do are servers, so I've simply avoided the Nvidia 
> problems by not purchasing their products. I doubt Nvidia has notices 
> any decrease in sales on my account.
> 
> As a community, can't we influence Nvidia to cooperate in driver 
> development to resolve these issues for the unfortunates that have 
> innocently encountered this stumbling block on the road to Linux 
> deployment? There was a time when Linux in general wasn't a major 

 From my experiences, nVidia works better than ATI and supports Linux 
much better.  I purchased an ATI for my new computer after checking 
the ATI WWW site.  It wasn't until after almost a month of fighting to 
get proper 3D support that I went and got an nVidia card.  Up and 
running in less than 30 minutes with full 3D using the nVidia closed 
source drivers.

Upgrading is simple and I have had no issues that I can contribute to 
the video card.  ATI may be better now but I have had issues with ATI 
on WinXP as well.

 From my experience, I would rather see nVidia than ATI succeed.  For 
our cluster, we have used Tyan cards with on-board video.  No issues 
as we only need vga support.


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Robin Laing