From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GkoVq-0007be-KU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 21:11:11 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kAGL8fqs012781; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 21:08:42 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.185]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kAGL4fuf007854 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 21:04:41 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c31so1963079nfb for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:04:41 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=b8nz28fy/VMNDFQpM1ULdWdAXtgzBaQZnKifklrlt52WAA+t4X7yZFpn3v3dNuVwME3NjWjFSWx1faombcVVFxPaR7ThYvuQ/8gKJffhAh1xBF4u2xy51j1Kvnsml86kGDO9KwRVABM7x2q4+EBg6tqaQh0nubuPGpR2sCJIdG8= Received: by 10.82.142.9 with SMTP id p9mr129062bud.1163711080174; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:04:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.106.2 with HTTP; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:04:40 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <7573e9640611161304o411169afx7c44f3596a0d8d62@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:04:40 -0700 From: "Richard Fish" Sender: richard.j.fish@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 7800 GTX: opensource driver stable? In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: X-Google-Sender-Auth: f3f57bb41d78922b X-Archives-Salt: 0d7f7e00-243e-4c42-a54d-8f99a1fefd4d X-Archives-Hash: f1673eba43c6fcea1f00020d514a0ff8 On 11/16/06, James wrote: > I'm not looking for the latest video card, just one with good performance > and open source drivers. You won't get hardware 3D with nvidia and open source drivers. So you'll either have to accept the proprietary drivers (which are pretty good IMO) if you want hardware 3D, or prefer an ATI card supported by the radeon driver. But I have no current experience with ATI, so others will have to comment about that side of the world. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list