From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 15 01:08:00 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FBBA16A404 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:08:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D12713C455 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:07:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (inchoate.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.25]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l2F0i0av033372 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:14:01 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: "Kip Macy" Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:13:56 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart55902664.Oh1B2DeULB"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200703151113.57847.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -3.274 () ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.58 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Nikolas Britton , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.) X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:08:00 -0000 --nextPart55902664.Oh1B2DeULB Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline [moved to -chat] On Wednesday 14 March 2007 08:16, Kip Macy wrote: > 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. Well, the open source 2d only stuff works for more modern nvidia chipsets I= =20 believe (although I don't have a 7800 or 8800 to test it with). I have had a few issues with the nvidia binary driver but by in large it wo= rks=20 very well. I'd prefer open source support too but I don't think it's an especially=20 realistic dream (for full 3d support from a modern card). =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart55902664.Oh1B2DeULB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBF+JbN5ZPcIHs/zowRAth5AJ9Q4nTY28XXarVWBUxFNp/3tC7SzACdGJ39 6lyPrtTiNXhkmc1zdqBgMFo= =gzjw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart55902664.Oh1B2DeULB--