Re: [SLUG] hardware ? and Linux

From: Matthew Rogers (matt@runithard.com)
Date: Wed Jan 09 2008 - 13:50:38 EST


William Coulter wrote:
> As far as I have been reading on the Linux sites Nvidia has better
> support. Now that might be changing because of who bought who.
> Didn't AMD buy ATI?
>
> William
>
> On Jan 9, 2008 9:23 AM, Chris Mathey < slug@mathey.org
> <mailto:slug@mathey.org>> wrote:
>
> William Coulter wrote:
> > I was going over the manual on the motherboard again to be sure that
> > there were no glitches, but I saw one that might be a problem.
> It is
> > using the ATI CrossFireX support for the video cards. Does that
> mean
> > that I should buy an ATI video card?
> >
> > William
> Crossfire is for ATI cards.
> Aren't NVIDIA drivers much more mature than ATI? I believe ATI just
> started officialy supporting Linux.
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AMD did buy ATI.......... and after it did AMD has forced better linux
support... I expect it to be on par with NV shortly.

*http://ati.amd.com/products/catalyst/linux.html*
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