Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)

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Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com>
Date
13 Mar 2007 22:28:26
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Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)
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200703132217.l2DMH0OD051784@ambrisko.com


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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 :-(

Doug A.


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