Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)

[Andresen, Jason R.]

On Behalf Of fred
>
>Sean Bryant a écrit :
>> Try the 'vesa' xorg driver. It may not be fancy or all that 
>> accelerated but it works quite well. I have an nvidia card 
>and cannot 
>> get it to work for the life of me. the drive attached, but nothing 
>> happens after that. It might be the fact that I have a PCI express 
>> card. But the vesa driver is working just fine for me.
>??? PCI-E GPU are known to work fine.
>
>Which GPU do you have ? May be one too old that nvidia
>does not support anymore ?

I don't think there are any PCIe boards that are too old to support.
FWIW, I have a Geforce 8800 GTX on my dual boot box and the nVidia
driver works mostly.  It's still pretty buggy (although this is on
7-Current, so it's hard to tell if it's the driver's fault or
FreeBSDs), but it's good enough for day to day stuff (just don't play
too many movies or start up too many OpenGL apps, and don't try to
return to the console).

On the other hand, the latest nVidia drivers for this card are buggy in
Windows too, so maybe it is their fault.