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Subject: Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)
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> > 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.
> Hmm...
>
> I abandoned ATI GPU because of notoriously buggy issues.
> I have no problem with my nvidia GPUs (even in dualhead, at the time I
> tried it).

Good data point. I'm not taking sides. What dual head card are you
using? I'm ordering the parts for a shuttle box now - if Nvidia works
better I'll go with it.


 -Kip