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On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 07:54:16PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
> Be carefull what you wish for. The Radeon works on amd64 because the
> driver is open source and a couple of us were able to dive into the code
> and fix it (it had a small 32-bit-ness issue). 

Is there a PCI-express ATI video card that is accelerated with the open
source Radeon driver?

> If your binary-only Nvidia driver breaks you have to wait for nvidia to
> release a fix.

Amen!

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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)