Paul Johnson wrote:
Frédéric Dreier <frederic.dreier@uptime.ch> writes:Paul Johnson wrote:Steve Freitas <steve@newportit.com> writes:How is ATI support better than Nvidia ? As far as I know, both provide binary drivers, and nvidia was at this game much earlier than ati.I had nothing but bad experience with Nvidia's binary drivers. They kept locking up my machine completely. The open-source alternative, XFree86's nv driver, is completely pathetic. The XFree86 Radeon driver, on the other hand, has performed so beautifully for me that I never felt the need to try their binary driver. YMMV.Steve Freitas is now my definition for typical case for an nVidia user these days.Actually I have more 'diffcult' experience with ATI than nvidia... the last time I checked, framebuffer still hangs when I switch from X to consoles with my ATI 9700.Your point? Even Linus tells people not to use framebuffer for anything unless they have to.
Does he really? Or are you making that up ;-)