[Leaplist] Blame nVidia by default (NOT!) -- WAS: Latest Ubuntu version 8.10

[L.T. Easterly]

Just my two-cents worth -- Currently on both a home-built small-form-factor
PC with add-on NVidia card and a walmart OOB Acer laptop with NVidia chipset
I've had minimal issue, with the exception of the occasional kernel update I
would overlook and have to tweak the drivers again.

Using Ubuntu on both now for uniformity, NVidia cards have rarely been an
issue;even when I used Fedora and Suse I seemed to get the best availablity
of support, vendor or community, from NVidia cards on the hodge-podge of
machines I threw linux distros on.

Intel chips tended to be the most troublesome, non-detecting resolution
correctly defaulting to lowest-resolution/aspect ratios that require much
manipulation on the older Dell boxes that I've rebuilt for neighbor kids,
etc.

Others' mileage may vary but I think Nvidia has been pretty solid where I'm
concerned. You'll hear no bashing here.


On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Jason Boxman <jasonb at edseek.com> wrote:

> Bryan J. Smith wrote:
>
>> Derek Konigsberg <octo at logicprobe.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Well, looks like the discussion thread on my laptop got
>>> updated:
>>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6194853 Apparently its a "known
>>> bug at release time" with
>>> the wireless chipset driver.  So I'll try the suggested
>>> fix tonight, and hope it goes well.
>>>
>>
>> One thing I do tire of is the "blame nVidia by default"
>> non-sense.  Especially when it comes to their platform
>> chipsets (nForce) where they've been completely open
>> and GPL, largely because they have a huge amount of the
>> workstation and AMD server pie.  They minimize changes and
>> maximize backward compatibility, even for new designs.
>>
>> Intel pushes features at their semiconductor unit, doesn't
>> even get the Windows drivers correct (as most have been
>> following the BluRay details can attest to), because they
>> change things on-a-whim.  And that means Intel's own Linux
>> team is scrambling just to get the tech specs and a basic
>> driver before release.
>>
>> On the GPU end, when it comes to basic desktops, most Intel
>> GPUs "do the job" and they don't dork with a lot.  You're just
>> using the standard VGA, DVI, etc... output from yesteryear.
>> If you happen to get a brand new Intel GPU, it may take a
>> few releases and maybe your video out doesn't work.  Oh well,
>> people survive on desktops.
>>
>
> I won't touch Intel GPUs since my 2003 Dell Inspiron 1100.  The performance
> is so awful, it's a waste.  Even Intel's most recent integrated GPU offering
> performs poorly.  Meanwhile, my NVidia 8400GS-M works just great, although
> the 64-bit memory bus really, really sucks...  (It's pretty low power, at
> least.)
>
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