Choosing a video card - Nvidia or ATI
Narvi
narvi at haldjas.folklore.ee
Sun Jan 11 15:57:51 PST 2004
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Michal Pasternak wrote:
> Dev Tugnait [Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 11:34:11AM -0500]:
> > I use nvidia geforce 2 60mb never crashed X never had a panic or reboot it runs so much more better on bsd than linux. If you have a low budget nvidia all the way. Current uptime with X on desktop is 45 days and X hasnt crashed ever since i ran it :) and yes good movie and dvd playback too
>
> Well, which drivers do you use?
>
> How often do you use OpenGL applications?
>
> My NVidia works okay with "nv" driver (no hw accel) from XFree86, yes, that
> driver is stable indeed.
>
> But, NVidia's own drivers are unstable. Maybe your results are better,
> because you have other card, than mine.
>
Does anybody know if there is a way to feed data back to Nvidia about
instabilities?
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