On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 03:36:18PM +1200, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
>
> By way of contrast, I've been running Tyan and Supermicro boards with
> ATI radeon 9000 and 9200 cards for years without any issues on FreeBSD
> 4.8, 4.9, 5.3, 5.4 and now 6.0. I just use the supplied drivers that
> come with Xorg (XFree in the past).
>
I replaced a failed ATI 9700 PRO with a GeForce 6300. ATI
_NEVER_ supported that card with a Linux compatible driver.
I have an HP ZD8000 with the ATI X300 card in it. You will
never believe it, but... ATI _NEVER_ supported that card!!!
I look at the list of cards nVidia supports, and make the
decision to never again purchase another ATI card (okay, my
Tyan K8WE has ATI, and I will used the chip, but it will be
a firewall, so who cares?) simply due to their crappy support.
No, I don't use 3D - but, if I wanted to/needed to, I feel
nVidia at least offers me the chance of having it work. Now,
granted, it may not work, but at least I have the chance. Plus
nVidia offers native FreeBSD support, which is what my work-
station and firewall run.
Bruce
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