Re: Claims to Not Support Visual (rv280)

Alan Grimes <[email protected]> writes:

> I used to have a card very much like that, but after a year of
> waiting the DRI driver never worked

This driver has been the best supported for many years. It has been
the best 3d performance available with free software drivers since the
Matrox g400 and g550.

> it would instantly and completely crash the machine even during the
> most trivial operations possible such as loading glxgears or even
> glxinfo.

You must have used a faulty setup, because this card is very well
known in the free software community to be the best for a shitload of
years.

> My best advice to you is to abandon hope that the open source driver
> will ever work and just break down and get yourself the best nvidia
> card

I don't know what you're doing on this mailing list if this is your
position. I don't know if you're trolling, but this is the worst
advice you could ever give and directly conflicts with the interests
of this mailing list.

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