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

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith]

Scott Long wrote:

> Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
>
>> Sean Bryant wrote:
>>
>>> Andrew Reilly wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:17:00 -0800 (PST)
>>>> Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko at ambrisko.com> wrote:
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>>> One thing that is a plus with nv is that X has some support for it,
>>>>> whereas, the newer ati cards have no support :-(  I was a fan of 
>>>>> ati since it was easier to get support.  Now I'm starting to lean 
>>>>> towards Nvidia :-(
>>>>>     
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know if there are *any* contemporary graphics cards
>>>> that have 3D acceleration supported by some flavour of
>>>> open-source x.org?  Doesn't have to be a super-fast 'leet gamer
>>>> system to be better than a non-accelerated frame buffer.
>>>>
>>>> Matrox used to have a reputation for goodness (I used to have a
>>>> G400 or the like), but it's been a long time...
>>>>
>>>> (I'm currently using a lowish-end NVidia card under the x.org nv
>>>> driver, but it has issues (of which no 3D accel is but one...)
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> I had a PCI-X nvidia card 
>
>
> PCI-X?  Or PCI Express?  PCI-X is not the same thing.
>

It isn't?  I guess this shows my ignorance!  Well, I think it is the PCI 
express - the one that is supposed to be super fast, and replace AGP.

Stephen