Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750719AbVLHILT (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2005 03:11:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750803AbVLHILT (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2005 03:11:19 -0500 Received: from embla.aitel.hist.no ([158.38.50.22]:28130 "HELO embla.aitel.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750719AbVLHILS (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2005 03:11:18 -0500 Message-ID: <4397EB7A.7030404@aitel.hist.no> Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 09:14:50 +0100 From: Helge Hafting User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051017) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Luke-Jr CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario References: <1133779953.9356.9.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1133807641.9356.50.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <4395BBDB.307@ti-wmc.nl> <200512061850.20169.luke-jr@utopios.org> In-Reply-To: <200512061850.20169.luke-jr@utopios.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1619 Lines: 49 Luke-Jr wrote: >On Tuesday 06 December 2005 16:27, Simon Oosthoek wrote: > > >>Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> >> >>>On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 18:26 +0000, Andrew Walrond wrote: >>> >>> >>>>On Monday 05 December 2005 10:52, Arjan van de Ven wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>a hypothetical doomsday scenario by Arjan van de Ven >>>>> >>>>> >>>>Can I ask what prompted your post? >>>> >>>> >>>I got one too many hatemails from a "nvidia fanboy" who blamed me for >>>just about anything wrong in the world.... I fear that most of these >>>people have no idea why open source drivers matter, or at least what the >>>consequences are for not caring about drivers being open or not. >>> >>> >>I use nvidia cards, mostly because they work better than an alternative >>for now, but every time I need a card I look for stuff that is more >>open, because I hate to have to use the non-free closed stuff to do >>graphics. (Having no real choice in this is really annoying to me!) >> >> > >The ATi Radeon 9200 works fine... > > Lucky you. Mine doesn't. Using 3D on it makes the machine unstable, and the performance is apalling too. So I'm looking for something else - a radeon 7000 is cheap . . . And don't say that a crash during a 3D game isn't important - it is a two-user machine and the other user is not amused when this happens. Helge Hafting - 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/