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Re: Is it time to give ATI another look? It looks like it's still too soon, but I still expect things to improve. You should consider donating your card to one of the radeonhd developers if you're just going to give it away.
I'm thinking about buying a card to help with testing the improved drivers.
FWIW, 2D performance in the new nVidia cards using the open-source "nv" driver sucks. nVidia developers support the nv driver and they have said that those problems will remain unfixed. The nv driver is written to obfuscate its workings, so it's unlikely anyone else will be able to fix it. This is a really poor showing by nVidia.
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| said by Eatmeingreek:It looks like it's still too soon, but I still expect things to improve. You should consider donating your card to one of the radeonhd developers if you're just going to give it away. I'm thinking about buying a card to help with testing the improved drivers. FWIW, 2D performance in the new nVidia cards using the open-source "nv" driver sucks. nVidia developers support the nv driver and they have said that those problems will remain unfixed. The nv driver is written to obfuscate its workings, so it's unlikely anyone else will be able to fix it. This is a really poor showing by nVidia. I may donate the card. I hadn't thought about that option.
I hadn't realized that NVidia was going to just leave the nv problems unfixed. That really sucks. Especially since I can't get Nvidia drivers to compile with the 2.6.24-1-amd64 kernel. Module-assistant fails and so does the NVidia installer. |
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| Nvidia drivers work for me on AMD64 using Gentoo's 2.6.24-gentoo-r7 kernel. Driver version 169.09-r1.
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| said by Eatmeingreek:Nvidia drivers work for me on AMD64 using Gentoo's 2.6.24-gentoo-r7 kernel. Driver version 169.09-r1. They work for me in Debian, if I run a 64-bit userland too. However, I really need to run a 32-bit userland because of what I use the machine for--it's a testing lab for our production machines so I have to have the same environment. |
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