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Hi 7v5w7go9ub0o,
on Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:09:15PM -0400, you wrote:
> Help, please! I'm thinking of building a new box: asus p5e/intel core2=20
> quad. I had thought of getting an NV. Would ATI be the better choice?

As far as I've heard, all proprietary graphics drivers on Linux suck but
NVidia's suck a little less. I've had big stability problems as well
with 169.09-r1 on an el-cheapo GeForce 7300 but 169.12 has been rock
solid for about a week now. At the speed any modern chip runs at, I
don't feel the need for any framebuffer tricksi any more---the console
runs in regular 1980s VGA 80x25 text mode which is fine for the boot
process, after that I use gnome-terminal in fullscreen mode which looks
just like a framebuffer console but with full unicode support and
everything.

cheers,
Matthias
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