video card for amd64

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:55:37 -0400
Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> wrote:

> ATI, unlike NVidia, supports open source OS's properly, by releasing
> docs and/or driver source for their cards.

This is only true for a specific subset of ATI cards. The whole
X1000-series (X1300, X1400 and X1600 at least) does not work *at* *all*
with any open source ati driver, only with the vesa driver. according
to the developers, this is because ATI refuses to release all necessary
information to get these cards working with the open source driver.
And with the vesa driver you might not get all features (example: a
laptop with X1400 and 1280x800 display will only work in 1024x768 with
vesa). And of course, the ATI proprietary driver only works under Linux.
So much for the "ATI is better than nVidia in supporting open source"
argument.
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Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen,
Norway