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nVidia 96XX Drivers Lack Support

nVidia is poor support

Well let me just say that nVidia is pissing me off again, first they drop support for nforce1 and nforce2 chip sets just before Vista launches, then they sell people graphics cards for Vista that don’t even have non-beta drivers, then they go ahead and make the support of the “legacy” and take out support for even some more of their hardware. Then when they take out the support for the hardware then they stop making new drivers for different xorg servers and make you wait an ungodly time to get a new “legacy” driver.

ATI is just as good

ATI is just as good

With this new revelation from nVidia it makes the ATI FGLRX driver look like a godsend since at least a small part of it is open source. It’s starting to get to where nVidia is losing the battle against ATI on the Linux front, but then again Intel has all their graphics drivers open source and they are not competeing with the big two. Well intel doesn’t really care about the graphics market since most of thier stuff is built onto motherboards and isn’t expected to perform the same as a non-integrated solution.

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