On Wednesday 12 July 2017 20:15:42 deloptes wrote: > Gary Dale wrote: > > My preference is always to AMD for the simple reasons that they are > > more Linux-friendly and, as the number 2 company, need to be > > supported to ensure that computing doesn't become a monopoly. They > > are second behind Intel in chip sales and second behind NVidia in > > graphics cards. However their hardware always seems to work with > > Linux. > > so linux friendly that they dropped support for older cards in newer > kernels, so that our older computers render unusable > > as for the number 2 company needs support, perhaps true, but they have > to put more effort as well
Maybe so, and I thought those were good reasons, so in the 1998 to about 2004 time frame I was promised linux support for such and such an AMD card, went out and bought it at prices in the neighborhood of $100 a copy, and the support never happened. Then or later. Alex D. may have been over ridden by higher ups, but in that event he should never have made the promise. Once I went out and got the exact card he claimed worked well. Didn't at all. I took all the chip numbers and other identifying stuff off the board and sent them to Alex. It was a totally different card in the same box, which Alex said was later production. AMD never so much as changed the color of the dot on an i anyplace on the box. I packed it up and took it back, sorry, the box has been opened, so its all yours. That was at my local Staples. I went across the road to Circuit City and bought a $48 nvidia card, which at least worked in vesa mode. Several cards & motherboards later, all nvidia designs, then the nouveau driver was thrown over the fence about the time I built this machine in about 2010. It may not be the fastest, but it drives a modern monitor at its native resolution fast enough for the girls I go with. This one is 7 or 8 years old, and exhibits signs of poor bus bypassing from time to time. But its still working and I no longer pay any attention to Alex D's lies. Its called voting for what works, with your wallet, and I make no apologies for doing it. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
