[linux-audio-dev] latency: video card contribution

[Richard Spindler]

2005/9/29, Jussi Laako <jussi.laako at pp.inet.fi>:
> > For me ATI is preferred, because free (as in Freedom) drivers are
> > availably, and even the non-free ones work very well.
>
> I don't see any difference between ATI and nVidia. Both provide
> binary-only drivers for 3D. For both, there is open source 2D only
> driver available ("radeon" vs "nv"). This is the case for any reasonably
> recent GPU.

The difference is that the free ATI driver supports hardware accelerated 3D.

-Richard