[oclug] Poor graphics card support for linux

Ross Jordan rjordan at student.math.uwaterloo.ca
Thu Aug 22 23:54:37 EDT 2002


> 
> I've emailed ATI before and they don't respond.  I wouldn't waste your
> time too much.  I agree with what Milan said, vote with your walet.
> Eventually they'll get the picture that nvidia is making a good buck off
> of linux users.
> 
> Nvidia is excellently supported on linux btw.  Best commercially
> supported linux hardware I've seen yet.

Not according to the mplayer developers who aren't fond of the
ugly closed source binary drivers and general flakyness of them.
They seem to prefer ATI and Matrox.

-Ross




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