From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 14 07:22:38 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 1B1C316A402; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:22:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from markir@paradise.net.nz) Received: from smtp3.clear.net.nz (smtp3.clear.net.nz [203.97.33.64]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D28AA13C457; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:22:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from markir@paradise.net.nz) Received: from [192.168.1.11] (121-72-75-131.dsl.telstraclear.net [121.72.75.131]) by smtp3.clear.net.nz (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0JEV0034ZT4GOI30@smtp3.clear.net.nz>; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:07:35 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:07:26 +1300 From: Mark Kirkwood In-reply-to: <499c70c0703132237u1eb8ec62te6b7c8559f4cb935@mail.gmail.com> To: Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Message-id: <45F79F2E.4060003@paradise.net.nz> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <499c70c0703132237u1eb8ec62te6b7c8559f4cb935@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070313) Cc: 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 07:22:38 -0000 Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: > > Since AMD/ATI doesn't make a native driver for FreeBSD, I only buy > notebooks with nvidia, and I told my friends about this. > We as FreeBSD users could write about this in our blogs and pages, > which will widespread the word about the driver issues in better way, > as long as more users aware of this, this will force AMD/ATI to look > into the issue deeper, and work it out. > > This would be better than emailing the AMD CEO IMHO. > We could contact the ATI exec(s) too - pointing out that older ATI cards have support added by the Xorg developers and how helping them out with the newer ones can only result in increased ATI sales... got nothing to lose there I think! Cheers Mark P.s: currently use ATI 9550.