NVIDIA Updates Its Linux Legacy Driver For GeForce 6/7 GPUs

[rikkinho]

i use amd

I really want to know how people keep getting such crappy luck with AMD cards. Catalyst is not that hard to set up - I got very few problems with it. The open source drivers are, in my experience, more dependable than intel's. I get more visual artifacts and performance issues out of intel.

If you stick with GPUs starting from HD4000 and older, or if you get the latest release, AMD is a bad choice. Get something a year or two old and they're great.

I would have to say nvidia has the best support. Personally, I don't really care that they don't support open source. It'd be nice if they did and would make linux much better as a whole, but considering the performance they offer by doing things their own way, they're under no obligation to change their strategy.

i use amd/ati cards untill two years ago, bugs and more bugs, in both systems (windows and linux) and give up from their gpu, life is so much better wih nvidia

[schmidtbag]

ofc is easy, with a nvidia card everything works with amd rarely

I really want to know how people keep getting such crappy luck with AMD cards. Catalyst is not that hard to set up - I got very few problems with it. The open source drivers are, in my experience, more dependable than intel's. I get more visual artifacts and performance issues out of intel.

If you stick with GPUs starting from HD4000 and older, or if you get the latest release, AMD is a bad choice. Get something a year or two old and they're great.

I would have to say nvidia has the best support. Personally, I don't really care that they don't support open source. It'd be nice if they did and would make linux much better as a whole, but considering the performance they offer by doing things their own way, they're under no obligation to change their strategy.

[rikkinho]

lol

AMD supports the open-source graphics stack and develops it's own free graphics drivers. A shame that NVidia isn't able to do it like that. At the end of the day, that makes the decision between Nvidia and AMD quite easy.

ofc is easy, with a nvidia card everything works with amd rarely

[Julien Bear]

Really awesome legacy support, I'm impressed again and again. A shame that AMD isn't able to do it like that.

At the end of the day, that makes the decision between Nvidia and AMD quite easy.

AMD supports the open-source graphics stack and develops it's own free graphics drivers. A shame that NVidia isn't able to do it like that. At the end of the day, that makes the decision between Nvidia and AMD quite easy.

[J?rnS]

Really awesome legacy support, I'm impressed again and again. A shame that AMD isn't able to do it like that.

At the end of the day, that makes the decision between Nvidia and AMD quite easy. The decision Intel <--> AMD processor is a bit harder, especially if AMD can improve single thread performance and lower the wattage.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA Updates Its Linux Legacy Driver For GeForce 6/7 GPUs

For those still out there running a GeForce 6 or 7 series graphics card, NVIDIA has updated its legacy proprietary 304.xx Unix graphics driver for Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris systems...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTczOTU