Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:33:14 -0500 (CDT) From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> Cc: Kip Macy <kip.macy@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.) Message-ID: <20070313183135.P13138@math.missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <200703132217.l2DMH0OD051784@ambrisko.com> References: <200703132217.l2DMH0OD051784@ambrisko.com>
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On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > Kip Macy writes: > | 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. > > One thing that is a plus with nv is that X has some support for it, > whereas, the newer ati cards have no support :-( I was a fan of ati > since it was easier to get support. Now I'm starting to lean towards > Nvidia :-( I used to find nvidia drivers very buggy, but the recent drivers have greatly impressed me. Stephen
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