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On Donnerstag 16 Juli 2009, Keith Dart wrote: |
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> On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:25:06 +0200 |
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> Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > sure. Support companies that don't care about open source drivers. |
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> I also use boards with Intel embedded graphics chips. :-) They also have |
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> a strong open-source effort. In fact, I think they have the best |
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> open-source driver support in the industry. |
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yeah? look at phoronix again. Their current drivers are completly fucked up. |
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Plus no drivers for Pulsbo' chips. |
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> > And remember: when Nvidia fucks up their drivers (look at nvnews for |
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> > people out of luck) you are screwed. With AMD the work on the open |
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> > drivers is nicely going forward - so you will be able to choose. |
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> Perhaps "never" is too harsh. When AMD chips have full support of |
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> features in open-source drivers for the Xorg server that are |
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> stable and fast without any 32-bitness then perhaps I will reconsider. |
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> But I don't expect that to happen any time soon. |
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again: there is no '32 bitness'. As bridgeman explained in the thread I sent |
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you the link to. |