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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to find which driver I can use with a ATI v9800 fireball
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2016 18:58:19
Message-Id: o2hj7i$7ih$2@blaine.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to find which driver I can use with a ATI v9800 fireball by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 On 2016-12-10, Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > step 1: google: radeon gentoo wiki
4 > step 2: read
5 > step 3: follow instructions
6
7 You forgot:
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9 step 4: give up and buy an nvidia card.
10
11 ;)
12
13 I've always had consistently bad luck with radeon under Linux. The
14 last time I tried, the open-source driver kept locking-up or crashing
15 and the proprietary driver stopped supporting my card before it was 2
16 years old.
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18 Maybe things have improved in the past couple years...
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20 --
21 Grant

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