Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:16:10 -0400 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Martin Nilsson <martin@gneto.com> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: video card for amd64 Message-ID: <17718.14122.595003.335493@bhuda.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <4535CC95.5030501@gneto.com> References: <45351E55.000003.14882@webmail11.yandex.ru> <17717.10025.959024.108597@bhuda.mired.org> <20061017213931.bbcd701a.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <17717.13909.352765.706420@bhuda.mired.org> <4535CC95.5030501@gneto.com>
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In <4535CC95.5030501@gneto.com>, Martin Nilsson <martin@gneto.com> typed: > Mike Meyer skrev: > > "Better" is a judgement call, and doesn't imply "good". I'd say ATI is > > better than nVidia, because ATI provides information for at least some > > of their cards, so you can get open source drivers for them that work > For cards that are ~3years old! The ones you can buy today does not work > at all! Gee, that's odd. I bought an ATI card last month. Works like a charm. Much better than the nVidia cards it replaced. Checking again, I still see lots of cards supported by the OS radeon driver there. Maybe you're going to the wrong stores? Yeah, the newest cards aren't supported. That's the R5XXX cards - which were introduced about a year ago, *not* three years ago. Of course, maybe you're focused on 3d support, which is missing for cards using the R3XX and later chips. > > Whether releasing closed-source drivers for a handful of open-source > > platforms qualifies as "supporting open source" is another > > question. Clearly they're supporting the platform, but that's not > > necessarily the same thing. > At present the nVidia cards is the only choice for FreeBSD, Not if you want to use it on something other than i386. That's why the very first question I asked is the important one - what do you want to use it for? For what I want it for, ATI is the only choice. > no amd64 support but that is FreeBSD's fault not nVidia Why is that FreeBSD's fault? <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.
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