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Fernando Boaglio posted <ab2953b00601111137ob4bcc17j@××××××××××.com>, |
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excerpted below, on Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:37:17 -0200: |
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> <br clear="all">Hi, =D<br><br>I would like to hear from your some advice |
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> about buying a new GeForce NVidia!<br><br>My old GeForce2 it's really |
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> bugging me, freezing my desktop sometimes, which <br>gave me the error |
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> "NVRM XID: 0008". =( <br><br>I don't see people |
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> complaining about this error at Nvidia forums with new boards, only |
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> <br>GForce2 and GForce4 owners. =/<br><br>TIA!<br><br>[]'s<br><a |
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> href="mailto:boaglio@×××××.com">boaglio@×××××.com</a> |
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First, please don't use HTML when you send to this list. Many choose not |
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to render HTML for security reasons. I'm told that with gmail, you can't |
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disable the HTML option globally or for a specific address, only for each |
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message. That's unfortunate, but as you can see, raw HTML doesn't look |
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very nice, so please remember to do so. |
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You are asking for advice. Here's mine. NVidia refuses to make available |
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the specs necessary to support its cards properly with open source |
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drivers. Therefore, I refuse to make available any of my cash for their |
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cards. |
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Unfortunately, ATI's newer cards are similar, but their older Radeon 9200 |
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and 9250s have the specs available and consequently work decently well |
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with open source drivers. The newer ones have reverse engineered drivers |
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in the latest modular xorg (7.0), but it's still masked for testing on |
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Gentoo, and even then, the drivers are still experimental anyway, not to |
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mention they had to be reverse engineered so ATI isn't cooperating anyway. |
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The choices for full open source support are Intel and Via, and ATI |
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Radeon 9200 and 9250s (earlier versions are supported too, but the |
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hardware isn't so great). |
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You can of course choose to run the closed source drivers, but that |
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doesn't encourage good citizenship on the part of the video card |
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manufacturers, and risks system stability as well. Still, it's a choice |
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many gamers choose to make. Apparently, for them, a few additional frames |
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per second are worth more than their software freedom, but it's their |
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choice. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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