Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] Small PCI core patch | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Wed, 23 Nov 2005 09:53:30 +1100 |
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On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 15:07 +0100, Marc Koschewski wrote:
> I use my Nvidia card without the Nvidia drivers for long time now. For > pure X without games and just GNOME and coding I have no need to run the > proprietary driver at all. But maybe for others (mostly for people with > laptops where you cannot simply change video cards due to a > vendor-designed form-factor) it could get worst. What is left for them? > Run non-X environments on the laptop? Even run Windows on it? Puh! > > A damn stupid circumstance with Nvidia in the end...
Yes, but at _least_ with nVidia you get this free "nv" driver that they maintain and that gives you basic mode setting & 2D accel... With the newest ATI cards, you don't even get that.
Ben.
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