| 1 |
Grant Edwards wrote: |
| 2 |
> I swear I'll never buy another ATI chipset again. If AMD |
| 3 |
> doesn't straighten out the mess at ATI, I'll switch back to |
| 4 |
> Intel CPUs as well... |
| 5 |
> |
| 6 |
|
| 7 |
I usually don't offer my opinion to a rant but I just can't resist this one. |
| 8 |
|
| 9 |
I've been using an amd64 cpu on a ATI chipset for a mythtv server for |
| 10 |
the last two years now. The graphics are a Radeon Express 200G. This |
| 11 |
system is an absolute joke. Graphics drivers aside, I've never seen a |
| 12 |
more flaky, worthless motherboard in my life. I've done many a kernel |
| 13 |
update, only to reboot and sit by the TV for the next half hour while I |
| 14 |
hit the reset button every minute because the BIOS can't get past |
| 15 |
checking for RAM modules. It shouldn't take 15-20 minutes to do an |
| 16 |
'emerge --sync' on a 64bit AMD 3000. You'd think after two years there |
| 17 |
would be a bios update to patch this ... |
| 18 |
|
| 19 |
My nForce motherboards and GeForce graphics card are in the mail. I |
| 20 |
don't expect to see an ATI label in my house or company for a long time. |
| 21 |
nVidia may be closed source, but at least they work. |
| 22 |
|
| 23 |
</rant> |
| 24 |
|
| 25 |
Chris |
| 26 |
-- |
| 27 |
gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
Archives