--- Andreas Klemm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi XFree86 dev team, > > how good does ATI support you in comparison to nVidia ? > > Is it only a manpower problem, that the new ATI cards > based on R3xx chips are missing 3D support (I noticed that > in the 4.4 release notes) ? > > Or is it just because you don't get easy hardware or > developer informations from them ? > > A few days ago I had to call ATI hotline (where you have > to pay $9.90 for phone support) because of some problems > under XP... > > There I mentioned, that I had the feeling that nVidia seems > to support XFree86 team more than ATI, since > - drivers of up to date cards have been available in earlier > releases than 4.4 and > - there are no restrictions concerning 3D mode > > I told ATI that for me as Windows and Unix user it had nearly > been a reason, not to choose the ATI card, even if I think that > ATI cards have better quality and design (256Bit RAM access, > 8 parallel pixel shaders, ...).
I don't know how the binary drivers compare, but from what I've heard they seem to support similar functionality. I think in general though ATI is more open to xfree86 and open soruce development. they provide databooks to just about all of their hardware and they regularly update the open source driver with new codes drops. nvidia only supports 2d in the opensource "nv" driver they maintain through mark v. The open source ati drivers support 2d and 3d for all chips from the mach64 to the r200 radeons. r300s only have 2d support. This is reason enough for me to buy ati products over nvidia ones. Alex > > ATI seems to be interested and wants to know exactly why > I think, that nVidia seems to support XFree86 better. > > It seems for me, that this question might be a door opener > for you just for the case there exist some difficulties. > > For me personally I'd love to see that you get all the informations > you need from ATI, to make drivers of same quality and "featureism" > (2D AND 3D) like the nVidia ones. > > So please tell me something concerning this issue. > > For those of you my translation of their mail (see attachement): > > +------------------------ > Dear Mr Klemm, > > concerning our phone call we'd like you to answer some questions > so we can make our support better for customers in Europe. > > You mentioned, that you are very satisfied with ATI cards, > but nVidia would offer more support for XFree / Linux. > Could you please describe that for us in detail ? > > Do nVidia XFree/Linux driver offer more functionality ? > Do the Linux Developer have better access to driver informations ? > Does nVidia offer more driver for Linux than ATI does ? > Does nVidia offer more support as ATI ? > +------------------------ > > Best regards > > Andreas /// > > -- > http://www.64bits.de > http://www.apsfilter.org > http://people.FreeBSD.org/~andreas > > ATTACHMENT part 1.2 message/rfc822 > From: "ATI Technical Support (Canada)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: XFree / Linux Support # 2118096 > Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 05:58:16 -0500 > > Sehr geehrter Herr Klemm, > > bezüglich unseres Telefongesprächs am 11.03.2004 möchte ich Sie > bitten paar > Fragen zu beantworten damit wir unseren Support für unsere Kunden aus > Europa > verbessern können. > > Sie haben erwähnt, daß Sie mit ATI Karten sehr zufrieden sind aber > Nvidia > mehr Support für XFree / Linux bietet . Wir möchten Sie bitten dieses > Thema > etaws präziser für uns darzustellen. > > Haben XFree/Linux Treiber von Nvidia mehr Funktionen? > Haben die Linux Entwicker besseren Zugang zu Treiberinformationen? > Bietet Nvidia Linux Treiber öfter als ATI? > Bietet Nvidia mehr Support als ATI? > > > Mit freundlichen Grüßen > > Farhad Sadough > Customer Service Representative > ATI Technologies Inc. > www.ati.com > > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
