On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:01:45 +0000 Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As for 3D and closed source drivers... If you buy a nVidia card, you can use > their closed source drivers, and they basically Just Work. If you buy an ATI > card, you can use... oops, sorry... you *cannot* use their closed source > drivers, because they do not support your version of X. Or you can opt for > open source radeon driver... Which works perfectly fine, 2D and 3D wise, with the occasional bug, on my: * RV200 (Radeon 7500) * R200 (FireGL 8800) * RV350 (Radeon 9550) * RV370 (FireGL V3100) * RV410 (Radeon X700 Pro) and I should say the few bugs I've encountered were all fixed within a few days of my reporting them. I use the V3100 at work (my workstation there always runs the latest Fedora) to light up a 2x1600x1200 setup and I obviously need it working reliably. Of course, I use neither IGPs nor the latest cards. > oops, sorry... you *cannot* opt for radeon(hd) > driver because ATI did *not* disclose the specs for their HD family of cards. They did. They also pay people (Alex Deucher for instance) to develop a free driver. See: http://www.botchco.com/agd5f/?p=43 http://www.botchco.com/agd5f/?p=47 http://www.botchco.com/agd5f/?p=48 So we get specifications and a free driver. > <sarcasm> > And as you know, ATI is very open-source-friendly, unlike those nVidia guys... > </sarcasm> ATI provides specs and code hand in hand with the Xorg devs. NVIDIA provides a binary blob. Who's most opensource friendly? François -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
