Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:52:32AM +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote:
> > I originaly thought about bying radeon (9500, or 9700) but when I've
> > searched the mailing list I saw there were a lot of problems with the ATI
> > drivers too, so I've decided to stick with nvidia (known evil against new
> > evil...)
>
> Well, known evil is easy to fix and does. ATI drivers are pretty
> solid. nvidia drivers are closed and buggy, so while it's known evil,
> it's not something we can do anything about but boycott.
The new Radeons have full 3D and XVideo hardware accel in an open driver? I
was under the impression that to get anything but 2D you would need the
closed ATI drivers (which are not officially supported by ATI either last
time I checked...).
If there ARE open-source ATI drivers for, e.g. Radeon 9500 and beyond, which
let me access the full capabilities of the card, I am junking all nVidia
stuff I have right now! :-)
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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