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* Florian Philipp <lists@f_philipp.fastmail.net> wrote: |
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> I'm thinking about upgrading my parent's PC's graphic card because I |
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> have driver issues with their old Nvidia GF-2 MX which prevent me of |
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> using the closed source driver. |
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Try to sell it to someone who's dumb enough to take it ;-O |
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> Now I want to ask: What's the status of the ATI drivers? Does the free |
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> driver support 3D-acceleration on newer cards? Is the closed source |
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> driver still such a pain to setup? |
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Proprietary drivers always suck. I'd suggest not wasting time |
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with them. For the status of the free drivers, you could ask the |
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Xorg folks directly. |
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> How about VIA or Matrox? |
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No idea about matrox, but via always worked fine for me. |
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cu |
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Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ |
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Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: |
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http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce |
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Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: |
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http://patches.metux.de/ |
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