Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-7.2 and ati-drivers-8.32.5

[Francisco Rivas]

yes you have reason, because when I bought my laptop (dell inspiron 6400
15.4") I ask to vendor (pretty good girl) if I can buy a laptop 15.4" with
Nvidia, she say no because the size of the laptop is not appropriate..

On 5/7/07, Grant Edwards <grante@××××.com> wrote:
>
> On 2007-05-07, Francisco Rivas <taken2k4@×××××.com> wrote:
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> >> Next time I'm in the market for a loptop, I'm going to think
> >> long and hard before buying another model that has an ATI video
> >> chipset.  I've never had a lick of trouble with NVidia drivers
> >> and have had constant headaches with ATI drivers (from both
> >> xorg and ATI).
>
> > Your comment is really funny because I think the same before
> > my 8.36ati-drivers work. Honestly I think the same now, it's
> > important keep that in mind. In my job I have an Nvidia Video
> > Card and on the first time i installed the nvidia-drivers
> > pufff.. works.
>
> I used to like ATI because there were open-source drivers that
> supported 3D acceleration, but that ended a few years ago: the
> 9250 was the last board with opensource DRI support.
>
> Unfortunately, if you're shopping for a laptop there seem very
> few non-ATI choices.
>
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Francisco Rivas