Re: LCD monitor, DVI connection, resolution problem
- From: Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 13:48:06 +0200
Måns Rullgård <mru@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
You haven't really been able to convince me that the advantages of the
nVidia driver makes up for the disadvantages of being closed source.
How about this: the closed source drivers work without hassle.
That would have been a good argument if it were true. However I do have
some bad experiences from hanged machines and strange segfaults from
machines using different versions of the closed source nvidia driver. My
preference for avoiding closed source solutions comes from bad experiences
and nvidia has given me some of those bad experiences.
The open source drivers don't work at all (as you have seen).
The open source nv driver would probably work with an nvidia card, but
without DRI.
The open source ati driver in X.org 6.8.2 doesn't work at all as it is
older than this graphics chipset.
The open source vesa driver does work, but so far I have only been able to
get 1024x768. This is no gaming machine and the performance of the vesa
driver would be enough, but I want 1280x1024 resulition.
Me, I prefer working drivers. Those who needlessly restrict themselves
out of some kind of purist beliefs will pay a price (as you have seen).
It seems as if the price I will have to pay would be to download and
install a newer version of X.org. I don't consider this to be a much
higher price than having to download and install a binary driver. Of
course we would both prefer an installation that worked out of the box.
Yep. I knew that I took a chance when buying that card. However, I
still have more hope to get this card fully working one day than I
would with
Hardly. Hell freezes over before ATI (or nVidia) releases any specs.
Nevertheless there is the stable radeon driver giving DRI support for ATI
cards up to and including 9250. We also have the experimental DRI support
from the r300 driver for newer ATI cards. Both those drivers are
opensource. If I understand it right the radeon driver was written from
specs released by ATI with NDA and the r300 driver has been reverse
engineered.
There is zero advantage from maintaining an "untainted" kernel. The
only time it make any sense at all is if your kernel is crashing and you
need to debug it.
The fact that I or someone else is able to fully debug an untainted kernel
is reason enough for me.
However, it seems as if I am close to get the vesa driver working. The
mode 11a is listed but for some reason ignored without any explanation
in the log.
ROTFL. You could've had that functionality with a $5 card off ebay.
That would have been $5 wasted as this cheapo box that I have built has
the graphics built in on the motherboard. If I wanted a separate card I
would have bought a cheap Radeon 9250 which is fully supported by stable
opensource drivers.
regards Henrik
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