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Hi Daniel, |
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thanks for sharing your experience. The only "problem" in getting |
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an Nvidia or ATI video card is that they rely on closed source |
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proprietary drivers (apart for "older" ATI card for which the xorg |
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radeon drivers works well); on the contrary i've seen that the |
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unichrome driver became open source, but however googling around i've |
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seen many people getting into trouble for make it working.... |
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thanks again, |
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MC |
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2006/2/14, Daniel da Veiga <danieldaveiga@×××××.com>: |
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> I had one of this Via cards, different than yours, it was a KM400, but |
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> they're all Unychrome family (still have it onboard, only disabled), |
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> and it was a hell of a time getting it to work, in fact, I had to get |
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> an unstable Xorg, compile some stuff myself and getting a new opengl |
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> driver to copy over the old one. |
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> Of course, now things are better, the Xorg version now unmasked if I'm |
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> not mistaken offers support for this card, and you should have less |
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> problems making it work, I can tell you it works, it has direct |
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> rendering and I was able to configure it with some work and lots of |
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> search (specially hard because I only had this machine and all search |
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> was done using links in text mode). |
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> Sincerely, on of the best things I've done was getting my NVidia video |
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> card, and NForce chipset is way better than VIA, but that's IMHO, |
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> invest more money and get a better mobo. |
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> On 2/14/06, Marco Calviani <marco.calviani@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Hi list, |
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> > i would like to buy a motherboard which uses a K8M800 chipset. Does |
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> > Xorg drivers offers 2D/3D acceleration for this card? Anyone has |
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> > experience with it using gentoo? |
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> > Best regards, |
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> > MC |
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