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On Saturday 19 October 2002 11:59 am, Igor Izyumin wrote:
> On Saturday 19 October 2002 10:08 am, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 15:50, Vincent Meyer, MD wrote:
> > There's four chipsets to get halfway decent hardware 3D on a laptop.
> > Mobile Radeon 7500, Mobile Radeon 9000, Geforce2Go and Geforce4Go. I
> > believe the GF2Go and GF4Go either are or will be supported by NVIDIA's
> > binary drivers, so if you're one who doesn't have issues with the nvidia
> > drivers, they'd be fine.
>
> I would say go for nvidia. Currently, they are the only cards with decent
> GL drivers out there. Yes, some people have some issues with the drivers,
> but at least nvidia stands behind them.
No, they don't. NViDIA releases their linux drivers "As is." They haven't an
ounce of support. Additionally, another nail in the coffin for them is the
fact that they won't let the XFree team even a glimpse of the spec to build
better more reliable and intellegently written drivers.
> > I'm not completely up on ATI support, but I
> > know the Mobile Radeons are very, very similar to the desktop chipsets
> > (the 9000 is basically identical), so if the desktop ones are supported,
> > I'd be very surprised if the mobile ones weren't.
>
> ATI desktop support is horrible, and mobile is even worse. Don't buy ATI.
> The best you could hope for are incredibly bad binary drivers that work
> half the time and are actually intended for a different card. That's what
> the 8500 drivers are like. The 9000 and up don't even have drivers yet,
> and they probably won't come out until the card is obsolete.
Not true. ATI (at least up until recently) actually allowed access to their
specs. This allow2ed drivers to be written with true 3D acceleration support.
AFA the 8500 and 9000 series, I'll conceed taht ATI isn't as nice to
community as they used to be. :(
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- --Developing a emotion daemon for the Human OS
Here's the error:
#mounting local filesystems....................................[ OK ]
#Virtual Human Brain Driver v0.0.5 (EXPERIMENTAL) R/W fs module
#Virtual Nerve Node Driver v0.4.1 (EXPERIMENTAL) R/W FS module
#Insmod Adaptive Technology Device module......................[ OK ]
#Writing Sync state to Journalled VHBFS........................[ OK ]
#Stating emotiond..............................................[ FRUSTRATED ]
Segmentation Fault:sending signal 11 SegEV
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