Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

From: Paul Johnson (baloo_at_ursine.ca)
Date: 12/12/03

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    On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:52:32AM +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote:
    > I originaly thought about bying radeon (9500, or 9700) but when I've
    > searched the mailing list I saw there were a lot of problems with the ATI
    > drivers too, so I've decided to stick with nvidia (known evil against new
    > evil...)

    Well, known evil is easy to fix and does. ATI drivers are pretty
    solid. nvidia drivers are closed and buggy, so while it's known evil,
    it's not something we can do anything about but boycott.

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