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Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

Posts: 2,563

Re: NVIDIA vs. ATI

I don't know if it is important to you or not, but I just wanted to point out that there are no free software drivers for ATI cards, only open source software drivers. You can read more about it here: http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthre … #post67184 The only free software drivers for modern video cards are for Intel embedded video cards, which of course aren't available in PCI or AGP formats, and they pretty much canceled the "Larrabee" project.

That's unfortunate.
However, it means that if Free Software activists get an open-source microcode replacement, we may gain more insight into how the DRM works, and therefore, how to break it

The Nouveau driver also needs a blob of firmware to be passed to NV50 cards before they'll work (GeForce 6xxx and up), which was obtained by monitoring the binary NVIDIA driver's actions in clean-room RE.
I don't think that one has anything to do with DRM though...?

Great opportunity for RMS fans and DRM haters to work together, though (more than they already have).

jb

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From: Florida

Registered: 2006-06-22

Posts: 466

Re: NVIDIA vs. ATI

[root@fault jb]# lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M96 [Mobility Radeon HD 4650]

That said, nvidia++.

The GTX285 in my desktop is much, much simpler to work with.

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Nuz

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From: Latvia

Registered: 2008-11-29

Posts: 50

Re: NVIDIA vs. ATI

From my experience, I would recommend Nvidia. ATI took too much of my time to configure, and still I can't use it's full potential.

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