> That doesn't leave a lot of (read no) choice for folks wanting > upgrades with mature freedomware driver support.
I know exactly what you mean. I have a radeon 9800 (r350/r300) which is really acting up lately. And I need/want a replacement. > still AGP here. My system is also still agp-based, which just adds to the trouble. Buying a 'new' agp-card almost certainly puts you at a disadvantage, because you will pay more, fore less so to speak. So I've just been 'hanging' on, waiting for the 'right time' to do a full update. As for the GC, I will stick to amd/ati, way back as I got the radeon 9800 I 'HAD' to use their really crappy driver(back then) until a viable alternative was available. The free driver is still slow, but its getting there, definitely. A new card, would probably be a 4780 or something, for which there is already basic 2d support out there (in freedomland) and as far as I know, the next release (6.12) should bring basic accel-support. So, I guess I may 'HAVE' to use fglrx for a while, but chances are, not for to long :) > I also noticed the graphics card fan would try to start but soon stop. The card I'm referring to above, once had the same problem. The original fan just stopped, 20secs into uptime, leading my system to hang maybe 10-20min later, depending on load. I replaced the fan, and the card is still running today (the orig fan broke in 2005!), however recently it has begun getting slightly dodgy, it seems on heavy loads especially (gaming, big textures, certain shaders).
