On Donnerstag 16 Juli 2009, Keith Dart wrote: > 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. >
yeah? look at phoronix again. Their current drivers are completly fucked up. Plus no drivers for Pulsbo' chips. > > 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. again: there is no '32 bitness'. As bridgeman explained in the thread I sent you the link to.
