From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 14 00:02:04 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E9B916A401; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:02:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from math.missouri.edu (math.missouri.edu [128.206.184.200]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DE7F13C43E; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:02:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from math.missouri.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by math.missouri.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l2DNXHUj002391; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:33:18 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from localhost (stephen@localhost) by math.missouri.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) with ESMTP id l2DNXFWK002388; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:33:16 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:33:14 -0500 (CDT) From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith To: Doug Ambrisko In-Reply-To: <200703132217.l2DMH0OD051784@ambrisko.com> Message-ID: <20070313183135.P13138@math.missouri.edu> References: <200703132217.l2DMH0OD051784@ambrisko.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Kip Macy , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Nikolas Britton , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:02:04 -0000 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