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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  Solved.Re: X/ati/amd/kde4/hal/evdev/??? problem
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:25:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200907160525.07025.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090715194711.2044c522@dartworks.biz>

On Donnerstag 16 Juli 2009, Keith Dart wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:16:02 +0200
>
> Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > you said 'strictly 32bit' which is absolutely and utterly wrong.
>
> Sorry, bad wording on my part. I should have said "mixed" since that is
> what the web site (and ebuild) implies. My knowledge comes
> strictly from the "facts" from the official web site. That's all I have
> to go on. Well, there is also my experience with it...
>
> There is one thing I know for certain: This is the first ATI card I
> ever bought or spec-ed, and it will be the last one.

sure. Support companies that don't care about open source drivers.

And remember: when Nvidia fucks up their drivers (look at nvnews for people 
out of luck) you are screwed. With AMD the work on the open drivers is nicely 
going forward - so you will be able to choose.


http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzM4Mg



  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-16  3:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-15 11:43 [gentoo-user] X/ati/amd/kde4/hal/evdev/??? problem James
2009-07-15 13:39 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-07-15 16:17   ` [gentoo-user] " James
2009-07-15 16:29     ` Neil Bothwick
2009-07-15 18:49       ` James
2009-07-15 19:07         ` Daniel da Veiga
2009-07-15 19:24           ` James
2009-07-15 16:25   ` James
2009-07-15 23:10     ` [gentoo-user] Solved.Re: " James
2009-07-15 23:50       ` Keith Dart
2009-07-15 23:56         ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-07-16  1:13           ` Keith Dart
2009-07-16  2:16             ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-07-16  2:47               ` Keith Dart
2009-07-16  3:25                 ` Volker Armin Hemmann [this message]
2009-07-16  3:45                   ` Keith Dart
2009-07-16  4:45                     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-07-16  6:25                       ` Keith Dart
2009-07-17 14:10               ` [gentoo-user] " James
2009-07-17 14:19                 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-07-17 15:56                   ` James

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