new G4 towers

[Thayne]

Well you can get an ATI and write your own driver or you can get an nVidia
and compile your own from their source.

I don't know about most of you, but I have better things to do than try to
write display drivers......


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Burcaw" <dburcaw@terrasoftsolutions.com>
To: <yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: new G4 towers


>
>
> > nVida gives Not only binaries, but source as well so you can compile
your
> > own.
>
> > ATI has terible linux support
>
> Both of these are such plain wrong. I urge everyone to
> disregard these statements.  If anyone knows I do, because
> I have to deal with ATI and NVidia as a Linux company.
>
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Robert Brandtjen" <rob@prometheusmedia.com>
> > To: <yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 9:38 AM
> > Subject: Re: new G4 towers
> >
> >
> > On Thursday 05 September 2002 11:14 am, Dan Burcaw wrote:
> > > That's awful advice! nVidia is the most Linux unfriendly
> > > company out there.  ATI provides Linux developers with
> > > information and video cards to get their cards working.
> >
> > And Nvidia provides Linux driver binaries which rival their windows
> > counterparts, toss up if you ask me. ATI drivers are bare bones drivers,
> > with
> > a lot of the card's functionality not enabled.
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