ionut cucu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit:
> he...talk about being outdated...silly me
"Oudated" graphic card specs are not the current topic.
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On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:40:38 +0200
Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 23 June 2008, ionut cucu wrote:
> > On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:13:33 +0200
> >
> > Nicolas Sebrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a
> > > écrit:
> > > > ATI? Which
I'm not sure if this was linked to this thread before, but here is an
aritcle that gives points to AMD:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_evolution&num=1
As far as I understand AMD has given up good, "out-of-the-box" support
for the latest teraFLOP gpu.
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On Monday 23 June 2008, ionut cucu wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:13:33 +0200
>
> Nicolas Sebrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit:
> > > ATI? Which 3d drivers are as bad as nvidia from 'obfuscation' point
> > > of view and a lot worse if you compare
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:13:33 +0200
Nicolas Sebrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit:
>
> > ATI? Which 3d drivers are as bad as nvidia from 'obfuscation' point
> > of view and a lot worse if you compare the horror stories?
>
> The point is that *t
Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> I've made the big mistake of bying an notebook w/ geforce go 6100.
I have one. Compaq Presario 3415LA (Sempron 3500+, GeForce 6150, Gentoo
64bit.)
> So I strongly suggest, NOT to buy NV cards.
Too late buddy. All my current boxes (6) run on NVidia cards, and are the mos
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:06:10 +0200
Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 19 June 2008, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
> > Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit:
> > > ATI? Which 3d drivers are as bad as nvidia from 'obfuscation'
> > > point of view and a lot worse if you c
On Thursday 19 June 2008, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit:
> > ATI? Which 3d drivers are as bad as nvidia from 'obfuscation' point
> > of view and a lot worse if you compare the horror stories?
>
> The point is that *this* is changing with ATI.
really? it
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From: Enrico Weigelt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 1:05 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ati or Nvida
>Hi,
>
>
>I've made the big mistake of bying an notebook w/ geforce go 6100.
>
>
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:04:40 +0200
Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've made the big mistake of bying an notebook w/ geforce go 6100.
There is your problem. A notebook card. Even the nVidia site admits
that the notebook cards are weird. The drivers support the chipset, but
there are no
Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit:
> ATI? Which 3d drivers are as bad as nvidia from 'obfuscation' point
> of view and a lot worse if you compare the horror stories?
The point is that *this* is changing with ATI.
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On Wednesday 18 June 2008, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I've made the big mistake of bying an notebook w/ geforce go 6100.
>
> The proprietary drivers *never* worked for me - the binary kernel
> modules crashed the whole kernel (complete lockup) after a several
> seconds (doesnt even need X to
Hi,
I've made the big mistake of bying an notebook w/ geforce go 6100.
The proprietary drivers *never* worked for me - the binary kernel
modules crashed the whole kernel (complete lockup) after a several
seconds (doesnt even need X to come up for that).
I've analyzed their module a bit and see
Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2008-06-17, Nicolas Sebrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But now, it's not the same context. ATI specs are known and open source
drivers coming.
I'll believe it when I see it.
It's definitely different of the "past few years".
I doubt it.
Well,
On 2008-06-17, Nicolas Sebrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit:
>
>> Definitely nVidia. Over the past few years I've had a 3-4 of
>> each (ATI and nVidia).
>
> But now, it's not the same context. ATI specs are known and open source
> drivers coming.
I'll
Hal Martin wrote:
James wrote:
Platoali gmail.com> writes:
I want to know, what is the current status of ATI drivers in Linux?
Does the problems have been solved? Can they compete with Nvidia?
Just a suggestion, wait about a month before you buy, if you can. Both
ATi and nVidia are p
Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit:
> Definitely nVidia. Over the past few years I've had a 3-4 of
> each (ATI and nVidia).
But now, it's not the same context. ATI specs are known and open source
drivers coming. It's definitely different of the "past few years".
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On Dienstag, 17. Juni 2008, James wrote:
> Hemmann, Volker Armin tu-clausthal.de> writes:
> > > This comparison seems to rather neglect Intel.
> >
> > because Intel does not produce amd chipsets.
> >
> > > IMO Intel deserve our thanks for this for more than ATi or nVidia,
> >
> > and they deserve
Hemmann, Volker Armin tu-clausthal.de> writes:
> > This comparison seems to rather neglect Intel.
> because Intel does not produce amd chipsets.
> > IMO Intel deserve our thanks for this for more than ATi or nVidia,
> and they deserve damnation for their monopolistic tactics, their artificial
On 2008-06-17, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 17 Jun 2008, at 17:18, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
>> ...
>> if you want to make a political statement: buy ATI
>>
>> if you want to use the card with almost no problems and good
>> performance: buy
>> nvidia.
>
> This comparison seems to
Platoali gmail.com> writes:
> Although all tests have been run on windows. It seems that Ati have
> better hardware and it is also going to be more open source friendly
> in near future. I'm planning to use this workstation for 3 or 4 years
> or even more. So I'm thinking to risk a little and be
On 2008-06-17, Platoali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does this mean that AMD have not released 3d parts of the drivers? Do
> they plan to release the 3d parts?
AMD hasn't release _any_ parts of the drivers, and they have no
plans to do so.
> Although all tests have been run on windows. It seems
On 2008-06-17, Platoali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, last night the graphic card of my laptop got broken. So I'm
> considering to replace it with a workstation for some graphic
> applications (Mainly blender and gimp.) I need 3d acceleration, and my
> poor laptop was rendering for hours to ge
Galevsky schrieb:
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Hal Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Again, I haven't had any difficulties with the nVidia drivers. I'm running a
GeForce 7900GTX, which uses the same linux driver as the Quadro does.
Same here with nvidia driver on a 8800GTS GC.
A f
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Hal Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Again, I haven't had any difficulties with the nVidia drivers. I'm running a
> GeForce 7900GTX, which uses the same linux driver as the Quadro does.
Same here with nvidia driver on a 8800GTS GC.
A former ATI addict who left
James wrote:
Platoali gmail.com> writes:
I want to know, what is the current status of ATI drivers in Linux?
Does the problems have been solved? Can they compete with Nvidia?
Just a suggestion, wait about a month before you buy, if you can. Both
ATi and nVidia are poised to release n
Platoali gmail.com> writes:
> I want to know, what is the current status of ATI drivers in Linux?
> Does the problems have been solved? Can they compete with Nvidia?
All religious questions, imho. Nvidia might have the latest edge in
pure performance, but, the movement to open up sources is d
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