Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 08 Dec 2005 09:14:50 +0100 | | From | Helge Hafting <> | | Subject | Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario |
Luke-Jr wrote:
>On Tuesday 06 December 2005 16:27, Simon Oosthoek wrote: > > >>Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> >> >>>On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 18:26 +0000, Andrew Walrond wrote: >>> >>> >>>>On Monday 05 December 2005 10:52, Arjan van de Ven wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>a hypothetical doomsday scenario by Arjan van de Ven >>>>> >>>>> >>>>Can I ask what prompted your post? >>>> >>>> >>>I got one too many hatemails from a "nvidia fanboy" who blamed me for >>>just about anything wrong in the world.... I fear that most of these >>>people have no idea why open source drivers matter, or at least what the >>>consequences are for not caring about drivers being open or not. >>> >>> >>I use nvidia cards, mostly because they work better than an alternative >>for now, but every time I need a card I look for stuff that is more >>open, because I hate to have to use the non-free closed stuff to do >>graphics. (Having no real choice in this is really annoying to me!) >> >> > >The ATi Radeon 9200 works fine... > > Lucky you. Mine doesn't. Using 3D on it makes the machine unstable, and the performance is apalling too. So I'm looking for something else - a radeon 7000 is cheap . . .
And don't say that a crash during a 3D game isn't important - it is a two-user machine and the other user is not amused when this happens.
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