Old Man wrote:

>> My understanding (in the past) was that Nvidia adapters required that
>> you use the included Windows driver, loaded via ndiswrapper.
>
> I've been using Nvidia cards for at least 8 years and never had to do
> this. The nv driver included in X has always worked very well (but
> does not support hardware rendering), and Nvidia has been making
> native linux drivers available for years.

Ok, I either was misinformed, or misunderstood the information I had.
My own experience with ATI has been quite similar, though perhaps not
for quite as many years (I don't recall what graphics controllers I was
using 8 years ago, or how long ago I got my first ATI Radeon controller,
but it's been years).

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Sylvain Robitaille syl@alcor.concordia.ca

Network and Systems analyst Concordia University
Instructional & Information Technology Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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