Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver

2005-07-02 Thread Jens Mayer
* On Saturday 02 July 2005 05:10, Justin Hart wrote: > Whooa. I didn't mean to stir a hornet's nest. It was a bit late last night, so I felt like having to rant about something. >From a pure customers view, I'd agree with your conclusions. The hornets are now well rested. My apologies. ;-) Reg

Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver

2005-07-01 Thread Jens Mayer
* On Friday 01 July 2005 20:57, Justin Hart wrote: > To counter this argument, I would point out that I don't normally > purchase used 3D acceleration hardware, and that by the time these > cards are "old" they will also be "obsolete," meaning that you will > have sunk a good amount of money into h

Re: [gentoo-user] Ati Linux Proprietary Driver

2005-07-01 Thread Jens Mayer
* On Friday 01 July 2005 01:49, Justin Hart wrote: > Buying an ATI card for a Linux box is not a good decision. Go with > nVidia, at least their drivers work. I've thought of buying an nVidia > card for this notebook for months because, frankly, ATI hasn't been > taking care of the matter, and wo

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition recovery software

2005-05-01 Thread Jens Mayer
* On Saturday 30 April 2005 23:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've lost one of my ext3 partitions. Is there a good partition recovery > software available for gentoo? Not knowing what exactly your problem is, maybe gpart can be a solution (as it was for me a while ago): * sys-block/gpart