[oclug] Poor graphics card support for linux

[Brad Barnett]

On Thu, 22 Aug 2002 23:54:37 -0400 (EDT)
Ross Jordan <rjordan at student.math.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

> > 
> > 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.
> 

What a load of fud.  They aren't ugly, they are the fastest and most
efficient drivers out there, and they are _NOT_ buggy.

Almost all problems with an nvidia setup can be traced back to AGP
problems, and rectified by changing your bios settings...