On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 10:01 -0600, William Immendorf wrote: > On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Ken Moffat <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Personally, I'm lucky enough to only have one nvidia card (on my ppc64), > > so I have no real interest in closed-source drivers. Looking at that link, > > it correctly notes that nvidia don't support the x86-64 linker in /lib, > > hence > > the symlink(s). > This may be a little off topic for this list, but I have to use Nvidia > in my computers, but I'm thinking of getting an ATI Radeon HD 5770 to > replace my current Nvidia card. > > I think the free drivers for ATI cards are going to provide awesome 3D > rendering for my tastes, and I hope I don't have to use the > propetratioary drivers for the ATI cards. Anyone know about the Linux > compatibalty of the Radeon HD 5770?
Been thinking along similar lines, looking also at whether Nouveau is ready for production use. My feeling at the moment is that neither open driver is quite there yet - mostly for packaging reasons. From what I'm reading, they'd be functional enough for me to use (albeit barely for Nouveau) but the requirement to pull the kernel and half of the Xorg stack out of source repositories is keep me away for now. So for now, sticking with NVidia binaries, but keeping an eye on the situation. I'm hoping that by the next Xorg release, ATI will be usable from release tarballs, and perhaps Nouveau the one after that. Simon.
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
-- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
