From: Luke-Jr <luke-jr@utopios.org>
To: Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no>
Subject: Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 11:30:03 +0000
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On Thursday 08 December 2005 08:14, you wrote:
> Luke-Jr wrote:
> >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.

Hm, well I don't have DRI enabled on my primary desktop... just on a second 
one dedicated to gaming. Not sure if that makes any difference...

> So I'm looking for something else - a radeon 7000 is cheap .  . .

That'll outperform a 9200? ;)

> And don't say that a crash during a 3D game isn't important -

A system crash? Worst I've ever seen was a X crash, back before I got my X 
configs good. If you mean a game crash, I wouldn't know... half the time it'd 
probably be my fault. ;)

> it is a two-user machine and the other user is not amused when this happens.

Maybe he would be if it showed a BSOD? :p
-- 
Luke-Jr
Developer, Utopios
http://utopios.org/
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