On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:58:34 -0500
Nikolas Britton wrote:
We need to start hounding on AMD to publish the developer
documentation for all radeon chipsets. I for one will not buy any AMD
or ATI components until they decide to fix the problem.
Brilliant. Let's destroy years of good will with
Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:58:34 -0500
Nikolas Britton wrote:
We need to start hounding on AMD to publish the developer
documentation for all radeon chipsets. I for one will not buy any AMD
or ATI components until they decide to fix the problem.
Brilliant. Let's
Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote:
Since AMD/ATI doesn't make a native driver for FreeBSD, I only buy
notebooks with nvidia, and I told my friends about this.
We as FreeBSD users could write about this in our blogs and pages,
which will widespread the word about the driver issues in better way,
Quoth Nikolas Britton on Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 14:58:34 -0500
We need to start hounding on AMD to publish the developer
documentation for all radeon chipsets. I for one will not buy any AMD
or ATI components until they decide to fix the problem.
It is not a problem but a marketing decision we
Kip Macy a écrit :
Good data point. I'm not taking sides. What dual head card are you
using? I'm ordering the parts for a shuttle box now - if Nvidia works
better I'll go with it.
By the past, I tried it with an (old :-) 6800 GT, on DFP + CRT iiyama
screens:
two different displays or only one
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 10:43:12AM +1100 I heard the voice of
Andrew Reilly, and lo! it spake thus:
Matrox used to have a reputation for goodness (I used to have a G400
or the like), but it's been a long time...
I'm sitting on a G450 here. Works great. I've never heard anything
bad about
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 04:40:19 -0500
Matthew D. Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm sitting on a G450 here. Works great. I've never heard anything
bad about the 550 either, and it's a bit more capable. But then, the
550 is also like 6 years old now (and still $100 new, and uncommon
used),
Andrew Reilly wrote:
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:17:00 -0800 (PST)
Doug Ambrisko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One thing that is a plus with nv is that X has some support for it,
whereas, the newer ati cards have no support :-( I was a fan of ati
since it was easier to get support. Now I'm starting
Quoth Sean Bryant on Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 11:55:20 -0400
Try the 'vesa' xorg driver. It may not be fancy or all that accelerated
but it works quite well. I have an nvidia card and cannot get it to work
for the life of me. the drive attached, but nothing happens after that.
It might be the
Sean Bryant wrote:
Andrew Reilly wrote:
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:17:00 -0800 (PST)
Doug Ambrisko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One thing that is a plus with nv is that X has some support for it,
whereas, the newer ati cards have no support :-( I was a fan of ati
since it was easier to get
Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
Sean Bryant wrote:
Andrew Reilly wrote:
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:17:00 -0800 (PST)
Doug Ambrisko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One thing that is a plus with nv is that X has some support for it,
whereas, the newer ati cards have no support :-( I was a fan of ati
Scott Long wrote:
Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
Sean Bryant wrote:
Andrew Reilly wrote:
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:17:00 -0800 (PST)
Doug Ambrisko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One thing that is a plus with nv is that X has some support for it,
whereas, the newer ati cards have no support
Vince [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sean Bryant wrote:
Andrew Reilly wrote:
Does anyone know if there are *any* contemporary graphics cards
that have 3D acceleration supported by some flavour of
open-source x.org? Doesn't have to be a super-fast 'leet gamer
system to be better
We need to start hounding on AMD to publish the developer
documentation for all radeon chipsets. I for one will not buy any AMD
or ATI components until they decide to fix the problem.
Here's the email address of AMD's president: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Give him your two cents.
already did, i use AMD
On Behalf Of fred
Sean Bryant a écrit :
Try the 'vesa' xorg driver. It may not be fancy or all that
accelerated but it works quite well. I have an nvidia card
and cannot
get it to work for the life of me. the drive attached, but nothing
happens after that. It might be the fact that I have
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 11:55:20AM -0400, Sean Bryant wrote:
...
Try the 'vesa' xorg driver. It may not be fancy or all that accelerated
but it works quite well. I have an nvidia card and cannot get it to work
for the life of me. the drive attached, but nothing happens after that.
It might
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Oliver Fromme wrote:
Vince [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sean Bryant wrote:
Andrew Reilly wrote:
Does anyone know if there are *any* contemporary graphics cards
that have 3D acceleration supported by some flavour of
open-source x.org? Doesn't have to be a super-fast
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:58:34 -0500
Nikolas Britton wrote:
We need to start hounding on AMD to publish the developer
documentation for all radeon chipsets. I for one will not buy any AMD
or ATI components until they decide to fix the problem.
Brilliant. Let's destroy years of good will with
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 11:55:20AM -0400, Sean Bryant wrote:
Try the 'vesa' xorg driver. It may not be fancy or all that accelerated
but it works quite well. I have an nvidia card and cannot get it to work
for the life of me. the drive attached, but nothing happens after that.
It might be
We need to start hounding on AMD to publish the developer
documentation for all radeon chipsets. I for one will not buy any AMD
or ATI components until they decide to fix the problem.
Here's the email address of AMD's president: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Give him your two cents.
On 3/12/07, Daniel
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 02:58:34PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote:
We need to start hounding on AMD to publish the developer
documentation for all radeon chipsets. I for one will not buy any AMD
or ATI components until they decide to fix the problem.
Here's the email address of AMD's
On 3/13/07, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 02:58:34PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote:
We need to start hounding on AMD to publish the developer
documentation for all radeon chipsets. I for one will not buy any AMD
or ATI components until they decide to fix the
On Mar 13, 2007, at 16:33 , Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 02:58:34PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote:
We need to start hounding on AMD to publish the developer
documentation for all radeon chipsets. I for one will not buy any AMD
or ATI components until they decide to fix the
Please be very careful. The only real alternative (Intel comes and
goes) is Nvidia whose driver is binary-only for i386 (no amd64
support) and has a history for being notoriously buggy. I only buy ATI
because of the problems I keep seeing people have with the Nvidia
driver. I have a friend who
Kip Macy writes:
| Please be very careful. The only real alternative (Intel comes and
| goes) is Nvidia whose driver is binary-only for i386 (no amd64
| support) and has a history for being notoriously buggy. I only buy ATI
| because of the problems I keep seeing people have with the Nvidia
|
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Doug Ambrisko wrote:
Kip Macy writes:
| Please be very careful. The only real alternative (Intel comes and
| goes) is Nvidia whose driver is binary-only for i386 (no amd64
| support) and has a history for being notoriously buggy. I only buy ATI
| because of the problems I
Kip Macy a écrit :
Please be very careful. The only real alternative (Intel comes and
goes) is Nvidia whose driver is binary-only for i386 (no amd64
support) and has a history for being notoriously buggy. I only buy ATI
because of the problems I keep seeing people have with the Nvidia
driver. I
Please be very careful. The only real alternative (Intel comes and
goes) is Nvidia whose driver is binary-only for i386 (no amd64
support) and has a history for being notoriously buggy. I only buy ATI
because of the problems I keep seeing people have with the Nvidia
driver. I have a friend
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:17:00 -0800 (PST)
Doug Ambrisko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One thing that is a plus with nv is that X has some support for it,
whereas, the newer ati cards have no support :-( I was a fan of ati
since it was easier to get support. Now I'm starting to lean towards
On 3/13/07, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We need to start hounding on AMD to publish the developer
documentation for all radeon chipsets. I for one will not buy any AMD
or ATI components until they decide to fix the problem.
Here's the email address of AMD's president: [EMAIL
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