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'
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 b
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 wi
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
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 mig
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 t
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
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
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 :
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 at
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 ea
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 sup
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 a PCI express
card. Bu
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 th
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 startin
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
> u
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 (t
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
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
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,
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 PROTE
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
>
> 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 frie
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 h
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 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
| drive
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 has
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 pro
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
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 presi
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