Reply #12: Ditto on Nvidia ...

[RoyGBiv]

I'd been with ATI since the 7xxx series, but after dealing with their utter lack of real support for Linux after a lot of empty promises, I bolted. The capper for me was their AiW functionality, which they didn't support at all for Linux. At some point they put a link to one of the OpenSource projects that will get most of the cards to work, and it was incorporated into Xorg 7.0, but the video capture still doesn't work correctly on the 9600XT AiW, which is what I had.

I got an Nvidia 7600GT a year and a half or so ago. Couldn't be simpler dealing with this, and no mucking around with xorg.conf was required either. Nvidia was nice enough to put out a script that does much of that for you *correctly*. ATI's so-called xorg wizard overwrote the whole damn file and killed my somewhat exotic mouse settings. Thankfully I *did* have a backup, but it was still irritating. Only bright side to the whole experience was I learned a lot of what *not* to do with xorg. :-)

I compile the NVidia drivers "by hand" because I'm so used to it its easier for me, but I hear tell they even have packages that work out the need to recompile manually when the kernel upgrades.