Re: [gentoo-user] Re: State of Radeon drivers

2010-07-27 Thread App Deb
If you are going to use any *nix, nvidia is the best option for years now. The nvidia closed source drivers are of professional quality and have great performance. Actually they are the *standard* for graphics in *nix, and many (professional or not) applications actually support only nvidia. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: Update of mozilla products (firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey) gone bad...

2010-07-27 Thread pk
On 2010-07-26 17:07, Alex Schuster wrote: Good luck. I have tried the radeon driver from time to time, but never had any real success with it. Well, it is working now on one machine, but I need TV-Out, and I have temporarily given up on finding out what's wrong there, and stick to old

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: State of Radeon drivers

2010-07-27 Thread BRM
That's great so long as nVidia supports your card. The problem with the binary drivers is that they typically only support a percentage of all the cards the video maker makes. For example, I can't use the ATI binary driver on my laptop since it no longer supports the R250 chipset, only their

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: State of Radeon drivers

2010-07-27 Thread App Deb
Nvidia's binary can't be compared to ATI's one. The problems you describe are ATI-binary specific. And yes the nvidia binary replaces a lot of Xorg stuff, but after some time you will realise that this is a good thing, as the Xorg is a mess, breaks with updates, and introduces bugs with each

[gentoo-user] how to remove HAL

2010-07-27 Thread sam new
Hi All, As we know, HAL is not used by Xorg for output devices or any other devices,so I want to remove it completely,I set USE=-hal in /etc/make.conf ,and recompile the packages, and also modify /etc/conf.d/xdm with NEED_HALD=no ,exec rc-update del hal default .All things goes well

Re: [gentoo-user] how to remove HAL

2010-07-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 28 July 2010 04:44:23 sam new wrote: Hi All, As we know, HAL is not used by Xorg for output devices or any other devices,so I want to remove it completely,I set USE=-hal in /etc/make.conf ,and recompile the packages, and also modify /etc/conf.d/xdm with NEED_HALD=no