Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:13:56 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: "Kip Macy" <kip.macy@gmail.com> Cc: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.) Message-ID: <200703151113.57847.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <b1fa29170703131446v6ea65dabr952b8b65e3cce605@mail.gmail.com> References: <ef10de9a0703131258w3e3d9d64od823866d5fc9e461@mail.gmail.com> <b1fa29170703131446v6ea65dabr952b8b65e3cce605@mail.gmail.com>
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--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--
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