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

[Scott Long]

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.

Scott