the best graphicscard for FreeBSD

alex bustamante busta at 33rpm.biz
Thu Nov 25 11:36:18 PST 2004


On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 19:43 +0100, Fredrik Eriksson wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 06:07:36PM +0000, Mark Dixon wrote:
> > On Thursday 25 Nov 2004 17:52, Joe Kelsey wrote:
> > >
> > > The NVIDIA drivers are completely crap!  They do not work and contain
> > > countless errors which will cause system failures on every single
> > > machine I have tried to use them with.  Do not ever buy or attempt to
> > > use anything made by NVIDIA.  They just do not work.
> > 
> > Like I said, they work fine for me.
> 
> Yes, but will you get the full power of the card? I think not.
> I've had lots of problems with NVidia products and *BSD.
> 
> 
> > I'm not going to get into a 'my graphics card is better than yours'. Its very 
> > boring and very offtopic.
> 
> I don't think this is about which card is better than the other, more about
> NVidia being reactionary bastards who refuse the idea of open source.
> NVidia graphic cards are probably great for playing games in windos.
> 
> 
> --
> Fredrik Eriksson

How many manufactures release their drivers in open source? Does Matrox
do it?

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alex bustamante - busta at 33rpm.biz



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