On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 18:21:59 -0800, Peter Gordon
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Keith Gable wrote:
My problems were with the ATI binary driver. It is the biggest piece
of crap on the planet.
Excellent. I was just curious. As I have no plans to use ATi's proprietary
drivers (F/OSS driver support
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Heinz Sporn wrote:
The reason why so many people literally hate Ati when it comes to Linux
is rather simple: their Linux driver support is - simply put - weak, on
the edge of not existing whereas Nvidia was rather friendly to the
community right from the start.
From the start
Peter Karlsson wrote:
From the start is a bit exaggerated. But [NVidia] had binary drivers
much earlier than ati.
This thread has has led me to wonder about drivers. I have never
installed a source distro, complied a kernel or installed a driver for
my video card.
I assumed SuSe, Mandrake,
On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 12:17:57 +, Bo Grimes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Peter Karlsson wrote:
From the start is a bit exaggerated. But [NVidia] had binary drivers
much earlier than ati.
This thread has has led me to wonder about drivers. I have never
installed a source distro, complied
I had problems with ATI under both windows and linux, but that aside NVIDIA's
drivers simply outperform similar ATI's based on similar cards in my
(admittedly) limited experience. I had an Radeon 9250, and I gave up on it. My
nvidia 5700LE is great and hasn't given me a bit of trouble from day
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Bo Grimes wrote:
I assumed SuSe, Mandrake, et.al. had them built in. Am I going to need
to download a driver from NVidia (I decided on one of their cards) and
compile it in? Is it a module or what?
Even when I ran RedHat I had to use NVidia's binary drivers (this was on
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:57:24 -0800, Peter Gordon
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Keith Gable wrote:
From personal experience, I can say this:
DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE GET AN ATI CARD.
Just to satiate my curiosity, why do you say this? I'm planning on purchasing
a
Sapphire Radeon 9250 that
Keith Gable wrote:
My problems were with the ATI binary driver. It is the biggest piece
of crap on the planet.
Excellent. I was just curious. As I have no plans to use ATi's proprietary
drivers (F/OSS driver support is the primary reason I'm purchasing this card), I
don't think I'll have any major
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:00:56 +0100 (MET), Peter Karlsson
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... While nvidia is fiercely anti open source, even with their chipsets
(nforce) drivers. ...
I think that is not entirely true. IIRC the kernel driver (forcedeth)
for the Nforce based network cards is supported by
Keith Gable wrote:
From personal experience, I can say this:
DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE GET AN ATI CARD.
Just to satiate my curiosity, why do you say this? I'm planning on
purchasing a
Sapphire Radeon 9250 that I found on NewEgg because of the Free Software driver
support (X.org and DRI). Were
Hi!
That recommendation is quite harsh IMHO - although I prefer Nvidia over
Ati myself. With the latest release of stable drivers both Ati and
Nvidia fully support Xorg 6.8 including 3D DRI.
The reason why so many people literally hate Ati when it comes to Linux
is rather simple: their Linux
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