From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 1 00:17:35 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26B32106566C for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2011 00:17:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from unix.hacker@comcast.net) Received: from qmta10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.17]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09D798FC15 for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2011 00:17:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta22.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.89]) by qmta10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 2QES1h0031vN32cAAQHYzN; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:17:32 +0000 Received: from [192.168.2.3] ([68.41.84.140]) by omta22.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 2QHD1h00i31ffPo8iQHGHh; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:17:17 +0000 Message-ID: <4E0D1227.3090702@comcast.net> Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 20:17:43 -0400 From: Allen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org References: <20110623221305.43b74d53@davenulle.org> <4E0AEA54.1080806@bally-wulff.de> <4E0C016E.1040909@comcast.net> <201106300523.41240.akirchhoff135014@gmail.com> <4E0C5142.2020903@comcast.net> <20110630132455.13304880@mr12941> <4E0CBBBD.9090704@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Graphic card that works? X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:17:35 -0000 On 6/30/2011 2:34 PM, Michal Varga wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 20:09, Adam K Kirchhoff > wrote: > >> I love how you say you're not going into an ATI flameware again, and then >> you spend the entire paragraph trying to start one. >> >> Adam > > > In which i single-handedly succeeded, even without trying, if that is > the only part of my email that forced you to fire up a reply. But > you're clearly not an ATI fanboy, aren't you. Yea I noticed that too. And entire reply where you basically broke down each option someone has if they aren't using Windows, or, to some extent, even OS X (though not as far there) and I thought it was pretty decent. I'm not going by some marketing campaign, nor am I going by what someone told me; When I made my very first reply to this discussion, I was Honest, and went with my OWN Experiences in this area. And to this day, I've yet to have an Nvidia card that didn't work. You and I can't be the only people who just don't seem to have these issues, and for someone to reply time after time, where they basically snipped out your post and only left the part that talked about flaming, that's not looking so good. I can't imagine why someone would put that much effort into ignoring page upon page of your post only to respond to the last part of it. Totally ignoring that you basically wrote a 4 page HOWTO for Graphics cards. Now, the VERY first machine I ever bought, has an Nvidia TNT2 with 16 MBs Memory. That's the very first Computer I ever bought and it was over 10 years ago. The video card still worked until last week when it finally went. Over a Decade of use, heavy use, and it was still working. I had 3D with it and played Games, watched movies, everything. No problems at all. My Laptop, I paid extra to get an Nvidia Ge Force FX GO 5200. Again, no issues, and full 3D to play games. The only "issue" if you can even call it one, was when I read I needed a different version of the Driver since it was an OLD card, and that was basically me clicking on a different spot when I went to Nvidia's Site to download drivers. That was like 15 seconds, and I had good Video. The ATI cards in this House, remain without that. The Driver doesn't come close, and I don't even bother anymore.