Thanks, this is exactly what i was looking for. Mostly because i think that <a href="http://www.system76.com">System76</a> should start moving away from Intel and NVIDIA and <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1063323">towards AMD/ATI</a>. <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 20:13, Arc Riley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arcriley@ubuntu.com">arcriley@ubuntu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
ATI did produce some pretty horrendous proprietary drivers for Linux, and many people incorrectly carry that over to today.<br><br>AMD purchased them and much has changed. All the driver specs have been released and, along with Redhat and Novell, there's good support for almost all of their chipsets now. They even released specs for their latest chipset line, re-affirming their commitment to doing so.<br>
<br>The free drivers produced from this have been going through evolutionary leaps every few months, we're seeing all sorts of shader support added to the older chipsets. I've not found a single Radeon card recently that wasn't supported, even a client's crappy old IGP Radeon in a laptop I recently worked on worked great with Compiz and the games I tried it with.<br>
<br>While it's great that Ubuntu supports people with nVidia cards, there should really be a more unified "Don't buy nVidia" message being delivered to Ubuntu users. Their drivers need to be updated for every kernel version, if they don't update them in time any Ubuntu release could be left having to use an older kernel or loose support for nVidia users, not to mention the ethical issues of deppending on proprietary software for such a core OS function as graphic support.<br>
<br>Relying on nVidia's continued support for Ubuntu is neither sustainable nor in the spirit of Ubuntu.<br>
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