ATI or nVidia

debian debiani386 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 26 00:13:42 UTC 2007


Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 10:14 -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote:
>   
>> I am planning to use compiz-fusion with Gutsy, and surely GoogleEarth,
>> also maybe openArena :)
>>     
>
> If you are not into gaming, get an Intel onboard chip. It is plenty fast
> enough for compiz and GEarth, dunno about openArena (or what it is).
>
> Intel has open-sourced the drivers a long time ago, which is something
> both nVidia and ATi have yet to do.
>
>
>   
i use an ati card and ive had bad bad luck trying to get compiz 
[anything] to run on it..(my card (ati radeon express 200) seems to 
handle everything else i throw at it with ease)

my recommendation, go with nvidia if you want compiz

--cj




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