Hello,
I have now a Nvidia card but it’s a pain to make 3d work in Factory.
Now I wonder if the Intel or Ati cards can do a better job and are easily to configure.
Regards,
Roelof
To help with better answers, maybe you could post the details of your nvidia card, otherwise we can only make sweeping assumptions and guesses.
/sbin/lspci -nnk
Cut and paste the entry pertaining to your graphics card.
With factory ?
First off, this post is likely in the wrong forum area … as we have a Pre-release/beta area for factory considerations.
I assume this is for a desktop and not a laptop. And for a PCI-e bus and not a AGP nor old PCI.
It is very likely in the future, as in the past that ATI proprietary graphic card drivers will lag those of nVidia proprietary graphic drivers for functionality with new kernels and new versions of X. Its been that way as long as I can remember. Currently there is a hiccup with the nVidia proprietary driver and KDE4 on many 32-bit openSUSE installs, but compared to some of the problems ATI proprietary drivers have had in the past, that is not as serious.
If one is considering open source graphic drivers (which SERIOUSLY lag their proprietary counterparts) , then my experience is ATI graphic “radeon/radeonhd” drivers tend to have superior 3D performance to their current nVidia (nv and nouveau) counter parts.
Intel drivers are very hit and miss. When they work they are great. When they don’t they are frustrating. When an Intel driver is broken, one can go for incredibly long times before a fix to a broken Intel driver is seen (if seen at all). But again, when they work, they are great !
And in general, even the best Linux graphic drivers SERIOUSLY lag the performance of their MS-Windows counterparts.
Hello,
I have now a Nvidia card but it’s a pain to make 3d work in Factory.
Now I wonder if the Intel or Ati cards can do a better job and are easily to configure.
Regards,
Roelof
Roelof, loading the nVIDIA proprietary driver may be a pain ever so often, depending on how often you update your kernel or if you are using the nVIDIA driver from the repository or not. Still, it works pretty darn well. nVIDIA does not stay still for one minute and is constantly updating their kernel drivers to correct issues, add features and cover new released of nVIDIA hardware. I just can not suggest to anyone to buy anything but nVIDIA.
Now I do look with interest at the new Intel Sandy Bridge Platform and its built in graphics. l think it has potential, in the future perhaps.
[Phoronix] Intel Sandy Bridge Linux Graphics? It’s A Challenge](Intel Sandy Bridge Linux Graphics? It's A Challenge - Phoronix)
Further, apparently AMD has release into public domain, graphics drivers for their 6000 series graphic chipsets. I for one feel the competition is very good for us all, but right now, I would buy nVIDIA video hardware and load its driver The Hard Way and quit your complaining. lol!
Thank You,
Hello
Everyone thanks for the opions.
Roelof