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I am also very pleased with my eVga branded 6800 Ultra. I was always an |
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nVidia fan but since switching to Linux and reading/seeing all the problems |
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people have had with ATI cards, I am 100% convinced they are the way to go. |
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On Wednesday 14 December 2005 21:34, Jared Lindsay wrote: |
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> My 6800 works great. You can pick up a 6600GT in your price range, |
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> and probably a 6800 vanilla. amd64 support is much better than ati's |
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> offerings. |
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> |
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> On 12/12/05, John C. Shimek <jcshimek@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > I am running 64bit Gentoo (of course) and looking at upgrading video |
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> > cards. I have an ATI 8500LE right now. I have that working ok I am |
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> > having one problem. I am trying to use learn Blender. It crashes at a |
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> > certain point due to a bug in Mesa. There is a bug report for this and |
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> > it has been fixed upstream in Mesa 6.3. I have 6.2 and since that seems |
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> > to be bundled in with Xorg, I think, I don't know how to upgrade to a |
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> > newer Mesa. I have tried the Modular Xorg (with Mesa 6.4) but |
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> > xorg-server won't build. I went back to the latest stable one. I then |
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> > tried the ati-drivers. It compiles, I get direct rendering but X |
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> > crashes and complains about unknown symbols. |
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> > |
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> > I am think I just want to get a new card, mine is 4 years old. I am |
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> > thinking nVidia. I am wondering what is good in the 100-200USD range? |
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> > And how good is the support for amd64? \ |
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> > |
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> > Thank you |
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> > John C. Shimek |
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> > -- |
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