Rant! ATI Radeon

Kjel Anderson kjel.anderson-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Wed Jun 6 22:00:58 EDT 2007


Well, I made the Nvidia switch a while ago. Still, I believe that now that
ATI is owned by AMD that there is a push for better drivers in general and
for Linux in particular. We can always hope.

Kjel

On 6/6/07, markw-FJ05HQ0HCKaWd6l5hS35sQ at public.gmane.org <markw-FJ05HQ0HCKaWd6l5hS35sQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> > markw-FJ05HQ0HCKaWd6l5hS35sQ at public.gmane.org wrote:
> >> I am getting pretty P.O.'d at ATI.
> > You're not alone.
> > http://members.home.nl/jeroen-91/docs/fuck_ati.html
> >
>
> I found the "ATI" driver (TVOut patch really) from the Gatos project, and
> I have TVOut with DGA. I am watching Mythbusters on my TV through my
> TVCard using Kubuntu Feisty.
>
> Still, on my desktop, I went nVidia about two years ago. I will *NEVER*
> recommend ATI again. The nVidia card is awesome. I liked it so much, when
> I got a new system that didn't have AGP, I got a PCI-EX nVidia card. I
> didn't re-install or anything, it just ran.
>
> I prefer "freedom software" over proprietary, but I understand competition
> and business, and can accept good proprietary support for my patronage of
> a hardware vendor. nVidia has, ATI has not, I think the decision is clear.
>
>
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