ATI of nVidia?

[Matthew Flaschen]

Scott Lockwood wrote:
> Which, sadly, don't enable you to play many games, or use cool things
> like beryl in any kind of real time, or even dork around with things
> like Second Life.

It's not really the drivers that are deficient, but the cards themselves.

 As much as I hate the way ATI and nVidia work, Intel
> doesn't seem to be interested in making a really good 'performance'
> chipset, at least not the ones built into most common laptops.

True.  Hopefully ATI will release open source drivers as promised
(http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/05/09/amd-will-deliver-open-graphics-drivers/).

Matt Flaschen