[MPlayer-users] Re: best graphic card for MPlayer

[Jindrich Makovicka]

Alain Ledesma wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>>With NVidia you have to live 
>>with binary-only drivers, and with ATI you have to live >without many 
>>features of the card.
> 
> 
> A very good situation, indeed! An any other manufacturer?
> 
> 
>>GATOS drivers are pretty-much 
>>_the_ drivers for ATI cards on XFree86 systems, and the >GATOS
>>developers 
>>seem perfectly content to only support the basic >functions of the
>>card.
> 
> 
> So having an Ati card on a Linux system is a waste of money. Thanks I got mine from a friend at very low price!

AFAIK, there are binary-only drivers, which support much more features, 
so with ATi you can at least choose more features, but closed, or open, 
but with less features.

I still have a GeForce2MX and I have to say that I didn't encounter 
problems with the nvidia drivers for a long time. Their first releases 
were terrible, but the current ones are pretty usable, as long as you 
don't use nvidia framebuffer (currently running on 2.6.0test5 kernel 
without hassle). I don't miss vidix at all, even with Xv output, the 
system load during playback is minimal.

Regards,
-- 
Jindrich Makovicka