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Date:      Tue, 04 Jan 2011 09:30:31 -0800
From:      David Johnson <david@usermode.org>
To:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Nvidia driver?
Message-ID:  <4D235937.6080708@usermode.org>
In-Reply-To: <201101041251.p04Cpgv4087234@lurza.secnetix.de>
References:  <201101041251.p04Cpgv4087234@lurza.secnetix.de>

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On 01/04/2011 04:51 AM, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Ivan Voras wrote:
>   >  For ages now I've been buying ATI cards for my home dual-boot machine,
>   >  but it looks like the driver situation is only getting worse so I'm
>   >  thinking of switching camps to nvidia.
>
> Is it really that bad?

I once bought an nvidia because of it's FreeBSD support. After about 
three months I realized that they didn't really support FreeBSD all that 
well. The drivers were old, and frequently kept me from upgrading my 
kernel. I was also getting a lot of kernel panics.

I switched to ATI and have never looked back. The drivers are open 
source, and support the functionality I need. They don't support the 
latest HD5xxx cards, but that's okay because I'm perfectly happy running 
HD4xxx cards.

-- 
David Johnson



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