Re: Video cards and Linux

>From what I have been following, I think it's bad and forth.  ATI I
think opened up part of their drivers, but nVidia might have better
support?

I would wait to see what others say...

How do you get hardware decoding working?  Any idea if there is windows support?

~ Moo

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Ryan Riske <rriske-DIGfwAlWIP12q0c6+vc/[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My machine has started freezing up fairly regularly without any changes in
> either hardware or software configuration.  Through process of elimination
> I've determined that it's most likely the video card which is causing the
> problem, so I need to get a new one.  My question is this:
>
> NVidia or ATI?
>
> The card which I'll be replacing has an NVidia chipset, and I've been very
> pleased with the driver support for Linux.  Last time I looked into it (~5
> years ago) ATI's drivers for Linux were not so great (crap, really) and I'm
> wondering how well their current Linux drivers compare to NVidia's.  I'm
> leaning toward an ATI card for price/performance, but I want to make sure I
> won't be sacrificing functionality under Linux just to get a few more FPS
> for games on Windows.
>
> I don't play games under Linux (for obvious reasons), but I like having 3D
> desktop acceleration and I frequently use the H.264/VC-1 hardware decoding
> on my NVidia card.  The latter is somewhat important for me, as the software
> decoders for those codecs produce some choppiness on my machine when playing
> 1080p content.
>
> Thanks,
> Ryan
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