Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Heads-up: KDEers: Particularly kde3-ers,
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 03:59:28
Message-Id: h6vd70$ul0$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Heads-up: KDEers: Particularly kde3-ers, by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 On 08/25/2009 03:54 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
2 > On Dienstag 25 August 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
3 >> Only Catalyst has this problem. The open source Radeon drivers are fine
4 >> (and of course NVidia's closed drivers and everything Intel is fine
5 >> too). It's one of those Catalyst bugs that are there for several years
6 >> but one bothers fixing.
7 >
8 > nvidia was not fine for a long time - and since nvidia replaces a lot of x and
9 > kernel funtionailty within their driver I would not be surprised if they
10 > replaced the offending parts too. Intel is not hit, because it is their patch
11 > that made their life splendid and everybody else bad.
12
13 And what about the two open source drivers? (radeon and radeonhd.)
14 They don't suffer either, and they're not Intel.