From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 13 21:46:02 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB13216A401 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:46:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kip.macy@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.232]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D94013C48C for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:46:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kip.macy@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so2087253wxc for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:46:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=UPVah/+ktL9or1HcuwjOo42lvrTe8kGDHeFpZThCYdHZ+RP3zaduBrZQadVk31f0wswvzLciX7RK+62p/LYq+vy4RM0AwY9s2ERgCp0d6E+XPPuVum0CU8G+sKAOUfkmTd8cXlXkbYCq3YNnHFXY4qy3YYq7Ojw0mUiOzwK4KFQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=W1oZkAQczjk9jZl+GeLFaKg9qsPjMDcIcXW2p1bjIS+LcYtHTlBjOBmujWnJL9VGhh0fJzn3BbjHHfyXU5QPJLSOtrX9KNmrcNQhbrRyRpGX1u2iWy9gxFEHEUIVafYZAYr6u9BhXvkeTjYL4JDULb8hLm0bG/oBJbo+zkRbeOc= Received: by 10.90.116.6 with SMTP id o6mr6556213agc.1173822361673; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:46:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.25.1 with HTTP; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:46:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:46:01 -0800 From: "Kip Macy" To: "Nikolas Britton" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:46:03 -0000 Please be very careful. The only real alternative (Intel comes and goes) is Nvidia whose driver is binary-only for i386 (no amd64 support) and has a history for being notoriously buggy. I only buy ATI because of the problems I keep seeing people have with the Nvidia driver. I have a friend who has basically abandoned his dual-head Nvidia card due to recurring issues. -Kip On 3/13/07, Nikolas Britton wrote: > We need to start hounding on AMD to publish the developer > documentation for all radeon chipsets. I for one will not buy any AMD > or ATI components until they decide to fix the problem. > > Here's the email address of AMD's president: dirk.meyer@amd.com > > Give him your two cents. > > > > On 3/12/07, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 March 2007 05:10, Yann Golanski wrote: > > > I have an ATI Radeon X1950 Sapphire and I am trying to get X/FreeBSD > > > working with it. My system is a clean install of FreBSD. I've managed to > > > get VESA to "work" but cannot get much more than that. > > > > There is no open source support for this card (alas). It's VESA or fglrx. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >