On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:25:06 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> sure. Support companies that don't care about open source drivers. I also use boards with Intel embedded graphics chips. :-) They also have a strong open-source effort. In fact, I think they have the best open-source driver support in the industry. > And remember: when Nvidia fucks up their drivers (look at nvnews for > people out of luck) you are screwed. With AMD the work on the open > drivers is nicely going forward - so you will be able to choose. Perhaps "never" is too harsh. When AMD chips have full support of features in open-source drivers for the Xorg server that are stable and fast without any 32-bitness then perhaps I will reconsider. But I don't expect that to happen any time soon. -- -- -------------------- Keith Dart <ke...@dartworks.biz> =======================
