linux drivers: Nvidia vs ATI

[Patrick C]

I just bought a new Thinkpad T61p, and it still lives up to IBM's old
standards of quality. The video card is an Nvidia Quadro FX 570M, and
performs quite well. AFAIK, while ATI's newer graphics chipsets have good
Linux support, those chipsets haven't really filtered down to laptop
manufacturers/embedded chipsets yet.

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows at usa.net>wrote:

> From: "Josh Coffman" <josh at computeristsolutions.com>
> > I need to buy a new laptop and I'm going to dual boot it.  Which has
> > better linux drivers: ATI or NVidia?
> > I assume both support compiz-fusion with recent cards, right?
>
> About 6 months ago, trying to use ATi's evil binary modules with
> compiz-fusion resulted in EPIC FAIL.  The open ATi modules worked
> fine, though.  The quality of nVidia's evil binary modules is
> IME quite good, in general better than ATi's AFAICT.
>
> > top 3 laptop vendors to choose from:
> > HP, Dell, Lenovo
>
> Lenovo, unless their new not-quite-IBM machines are pieces of
> cheap crap.  The old Thinkpads were well-built.  I have not had
> the chance to play with their newer machines for a long period
> of time, though, so I don't know how they stack up.
>
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