From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] graphic card driver status
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:53:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080318185351.GA26077@nibiru.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1205757130.5566.52.camel@NOTE_GENTOO64.PHHEIMNETZ>
* Florian Philipp <lists@f_philipp.fastmail.net> wrote:
> I'm thinking about upgrading my parent's PC's graphic card because I
> have driver issues with their old Nvidia GF-2 MX which prevent me of
> using the closed source driver.
Try to sell it to someone who's dumb enough to take it ;-O
> Now I want to ask: What's the status of the ATI drivers? Does the free
> driver support 3D-acceleration on newer cards? Is the closed source
> driver still such a pain to setup?
Proprietary drivers always suck. I'd suggest not wasting time
with them. For the status of the free drivers, you could ask the
Xorg folks directly.
> How about VIA or Matrox?
No idea about matrox, but via always worked fine for me.
cu
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