nVidia vs. ATI

[Colin McGregor]

--- William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 01:32:30PM -0400, Colin
> McGregor wrote:
> > I am in the process of writing an new article that
> > deals with video cards which I hope will be
> published
> > on the Linux Journal website.
> 
> You mean separate card?  My last purchase was
> regular ATI Xpert98 AGP.
> I stopped buying separate video cards after that.

Yes, I mean a separate card, for reasons that I touch
on here:

   http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8219

I do NOT like motherboards with built in video, and am
not happy going down that road. A few years ago I had
a very nasty experience with a motherboard that had an
integrated SiS video chipset, what a piece of @#$* to
get working with X-Windows. Since then thanks but no
thanks, I want the option that when there is trouble I
can just replace a card.

> If you mean integrated video, then I like Via
> UniChrome.  Driver called
> 'via' comes with Xorg, and it seems to set monitor
> to higher Vsync than
> regular 'vesa' driver.  It's cheap and disposable.

For a large roll-out of "dumb" terminals (or thin
clients) in a tightly controlled business environment
integrated video might make some sense (where once you
solve the problems with one box you have solved it for
dozens of identical boxes), but for general purpose
computing, thanks but NO thanks.

Colin McGregor
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