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

[youshi10 at u.washington.edu]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:

> 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

Yes, there's a difference. Please read: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI-X>.

-Garrett