From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265128AbTL3Tmn (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2003 14:42:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265141AbTL3Tmn (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2003 14:42:43 -0500 Received: from louise.pinerecords.com ([213.168.176.16]:23966 "EHLO louise.pinerecords.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265128AbTL3Tmk (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2003 14:42:40 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 20:42:03 +0100 From: Tomas Szepe To: Derek Foreman Cc: DervishD , Eugene , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "ynezz @ hysteria. sk" Subject: Re: best AMD motherboard for Linux Message-ID: <20031230194203.GA8062@louise.pinerecords.com> References: <3FEF0AFD.4040109@yahoo.com> <20031228172008.GA9089@c0re.hysteria.sk> <3FEF0AFD.4040109@yahoo.com> <20031228174828.GF3386@DervishD> <20031229165620.GF30794@louise.pinerecords.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Dec-30 2003, Tue, 12:32 -0600 Derek Foreman wrote: > > > > planning to get GeForce FX graphics card, if it makes a difference. > > > > > > Ask here before if you are planning to change your video card. > > > > nVidia translates to "trouble" around here. Selected Radeon cards, > > on the other hand, work perfectly with opensource drivers and should > > perform comparably. > > I'm not sure how you're defining "comparably". If you mean they get > similar numbers from glxgears, that's possible. But the feature sets are > not at all comparable. Nvidia's linux driver actually exposes the > features available on modern graphics hardware. > > If you're going to advise against the use of their products in a public > forum, I suggest you be a lot more specific. The person asking for advice was very articulate in what their primary concerns in choosing hardware were, and my suggestion was made with those in mind. Yes, I'm convinced that a binary only driver is not an adequate solution in "supporting linux." And by the way, you are not being specific in naming the "features available on modern graphics hardware," either. -- Tomas Szepe