Rodrigo Amorim Bahiense wrote:
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> Actually, I'm used to recommend nvidia cards (desk & laptop)
> for most people because they do support most open source systems
> (Linux, FreeBSD, OpenSolaris), which is way better than ati at least.

ATI(..now AMD) releases full NDA-free documentation on their graphics
chipsets, for both 2D and 3D acceleration.

http://developer.amd.com/documentation/guides/Pages/default.aspx#open_gpu
http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/

They officially supported development of open source drivers, and 2
independent drivers exist including xf86-video-ati(4) and
xf86-video-radeonhd(4), both supported under OpenBSD with full hardware
graphics acceleration (..DRM/DRI).

Their binary-blog fglrx driver does not support BSD, this is not a bad
thing.

nVidia refused to do any of this, concerns of IP theft and such.. funny
considering practically all other players in the graphics chipset market
have released hardware documentation and/or reference open source code.

http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org/
http://linux.via.com.tw/

Matthieu Herrb has no need explaim himself to you, they're are pretty
obvious reasons for avoiding them.. he is also on the offical board of
directors for the Xorg project.

http://wiki.x.org/wiki/BoardOfDirectors

Have a nice day.

-Bryan.