Rodrigo Amorim Bahiense wrote: > Actually, I'm used to recommend nvidia cards (desk & laptop) > for most people because they do support most open source systems > (Linux, FreeBSD, OpenSolaris), which is way better than ati at least.
ATI(..now AMD) releases full NDA-free documentation on their graphics chipsets, for both 2D and 3D acceleration. http://developer.amd.com/documentation/guides/Pages/default.aspx#open_gpu http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/ They officially supported development of open source drivers, and 2 independent drivers exist including xf86-video-ati(4) and xf86-video-radeonhd(4), both supported under OpenBSD with full hardware graphics acceleration (..DRM/DRI). Their binary-blog fglrx driver does not support BSD, this is not a bad thing. nVidia refused to do any of this, concerns of IP theft and such.. funny considering practically all other players in the graphics chipset market have released hardware documentation and/or reference open source code. http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org/ http://linux.via.com.tw/ Matthieu Herrb has no need explaim himself to you, they're are pretty obvious reasons for avoiding them.. he is also on the offical board of directors for the Xorg project. http://wiki.x.org/wiki/BoardOfDirectors Have a nice day. -Bryan.
