On Monday 07 November 2005 12:05, Martin Spott wrote: > You should have a closer look at the upcoming XOrg-6.9/7.0 that'll > contain OpenSource drivers for the ATI Radeon X8x0 series. Good news indeed - I knew there were OS drivers for ATI cards in exisistance, but hadn't heard too much about their usability yet...
> This is why I typically buy ATI: There _is_ a chance that OpenSource > drivers appear after some time while you still have closed binary > drivers to fill the gap. With nVidia you can be certain that you'll > _never_ see OpenSource drivers. I think this makes an essential > difference. I agree with you, of course; only if one is working on a project which needs solid graphics support _now_ then one doesn't have quite the same flexibility. From what I see, the ATI binary drivers are a good bit behind nvidia in the "fit and forget" hassle-free stakes. For my own (FG!) use, though, I'll be watching the progress of those open source drivers closely because my own nvidia card is nearing retirement age and I have an aversion to running any non-open source drivers. Cheers, AJ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
