Radeon HD3200 vs Geforce 8200

I will be doing a system build using a mobo with integrated graphics.
I am a Windows user, but also plan to dual boot and play with Linux as
well.

Wondering which of the above 2 IG solutions would be more Linux
friendly, meaning which would be the easiest to get up and running,
and to get the 3D eye candy going? :)

On Wednesday 23 July 2008 07:39, someone identifying as *ArKane* wrote
in /comp.os.linux.hardware:/

> Radeon HD3200 vs Geforce 8200
>
> I will be doing a system build using a mobo with integrated graphics.
> I am a Windows user, but also plan to dual boot and play with Linux as
> well.
>
> Wondering which of the above 2 IG solutions would be more Linux
> friendly, meaning which would be the easiest to get up and running,
> and to get the 3D eye candy going? :)

Definitely the nVidia. At this stage, the ATi drivers still suck bigtime,
while nVidia's drivers are of much higher quality and easier to set up and
install.

Future AMD/ATi cards may come with FOSS drivers, but at this stage this is
still not possible due to some proprietary legacy code.

The proprietary drivers are the ones you need for 3D acceleration. The FOSS
drivers in X.Org (for both types of adapters) might work well for 2D, but
they do not support 3D functionality for obvious reasons.

Hope this was useful... ;-)

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*Aragorn*
(registered GNU/Linux user #223157)