ATi graphics cards

[Daniel Stone]

On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 03:43:17PM -0700, Kreg Schlosser wrote:
> My understanding is the "nv" driver is NOT from nvidia.

nv is written entirely by Mark Vojkovitch, an nVidia employee.

> The nv driver is the open source driver. you have to install the
> nvidia drivers from the repositories.

The nv driver isn't really open source.  If nVidia decided they wanted
to stop maintaining it, no-one could meaningfully do anything to it.

> As for ATI, they are NO LONGER giving out spec for there video cards.
> They stopped with the 8000 series of cards. So anything after the
> 9200, needs drivers made by ATI, which are not very good.
> if I am going to purchase a video card I want full 3d accelleration.
> Only Nvidia offers that right now.

Wrong.  See my table that I posted.
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