Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264559AbUAATir (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jan 2004 14:38:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264563AbUAATir (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jan 2004 14:38:47 -0500 Received: from smtp.terra.es ([213.4.129.129]:63328 "EHLO tsmtp1.mail.isp") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264559AbUAATip convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jan 2004 14:38:45 -0500 Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 20:37:46 +0100 From: Diego Calleja To: Lionel Bouton Cc: manmower@signalmarketing.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: best AMD motherboard for Linux Message-Id: <20040101203746.2b6c7f5d.grundig@teleline.es> In-Reply-To: <3FF45307.7070508@inet6.fr> References: <3FEF0AFD.4040109@yahoo.com> <20031228172008.GA9089@c0re.hysteria.sk> <3FEF0AFD.4040109@yahoo.com> <20031228174828.GF3386@DervishD> <20031229165620.GF30794@louise.pinerecords.com> <20031230194203.GA8062@louise.pinerecords.com> <20031231093929.GC8062@louise.pinerecords.com> <3FF45307.7070508@inet6.fr> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1317 Lines: 25 El Thu, 01 Jan 2004 18:04:07 +0100 Lionel Bouton escribi?: > Linux isn't a closed-source system where binary APIs are frozen, so > working best with a set of specific kernels (and I don't even say kernel > versions, I *mean* kernels, just search for threads on nvidia with > kernels built with some perfectly legit gcc flags) doesn't mean it is > working best with Linux. > What if Nvidia goes bankrupt in the future like 3DFX did, what do you do > with your card ? throw it away ? Yeah! I own a voodoo 3 3000 card. I've 100% opensource drivers. Under windows XP, I suffer from hangs while playing some games. And looking at the memory dump, the reponsible is the graphics driver, which isn't updated just because tdfx has dissapeared, hence my voodoo card is condemned to hang my box forever under windows. And if anyone had a tdfx card in a powerpc machine, they could use it. Unlike the propietary drivers: you have to use the framebuffer in your ibook (with linux) because you don't have drivers for PPC. However, Mac OS X has them.... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/