On Thursday 24 January 2008, Steven Hildreth wrote:
On Jan 24, 2008 12:03 PM, Luke -Jr [email protected] wrote:
At work where I have a few more tricked-out machines, I unfortunately have only ati cards, so no compiz for me. boo!
If you use a Free operating system, ATi is a far better bet than nVidia.
Can you elaborated on this? I don't follow your meaning.
Free as in http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
With a Free operating system, the best you can get a nVidia card to do is 2D acceleration. 3D is left to software rendering (quite slow). The only 3D acceleration for nVidia cards on a Free OS is for BeOS, and some highly experimental long-term project to reverse engineer 3D acceleration (Noveau) that works "for a few lucky developers".
On the other hand, ATi cards up to the Radeon X850 have decent 3D acceleration support by the latest X.org and Linux/DRI code, including AIGLX support needed for Compiz. This situation is improving rapidly, with AMD having released specs for their newer GPUs.