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Date:      Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:33:14 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>
To:        Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com>
Cc:        Kip Macy <kip.macy@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)
Message-ID:  <20070313183135.P13138@math.missouri.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200703132217.l2DMH0OD051784@ambrisko.com>
References:  <200703132217.l2DMH0OD051784@ambrisko.com>

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On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Doug Ambrisko wrote:

> Kip Macy writes:
> | 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.
>
> One thing that is a plus with nv is that X has some support for it,
> whereas, the newer ati cards have no support :-(  I was a fan of ati
> since it was easier to get support.  Now I'm starting to lean towards
> Nvidia :-(

I used to find nvidia drivers very buggy, but the recent drivers have 
greatly impressed me.

Stephen




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