Charles A Edwards wrote: > On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:10:10 +0200 > Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>less effort to get a fully-working NVidia card than a >>fully-working Radeon card under Mandrake, and ATI now also ships >>binary-only drivers for the new Radeons. > > > Any drivers for the radeon=>8500 other than the binary from ATI are > provided by either XFree or Gatos not by Mandrake >
???? On Mandrake XFree is provided by Mandrake ... My point was that there isn't really much choice now, to get good all the features on reasonable cards, you need binary-only drivers, whether from NVidia or ATI ... so there is no real way to change vendors. People who bought Radeon7000 series cards have more problems with getting all the features working under Mandrake than people using cheaper but equivalent Nvidia cards, even though the Radeon's were supposed to be fully supported by free drivers. So, NVidia may want to consider open-sourcing their drivers in an effort to gain market share IMHO. Buchan -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
