radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Sun Jan 31 12:30:21 UTC 2010


Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Ed Greshko wrote:
>
>   
>> Kevin Kofler wrote:
>>     
>>> Recommending proprietary drivers in general and NVidia in particular is a
>>> very bad idea, they'll come to bite you in the ass sooner or later, and
>>> with NVidia there's no alternative with OpenGL support. (Nouveau
>>> reportedly works great for 2D these days though.)
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> I've been waiting for over 3 years now to get bitten......
>>     
>
> Either you were extremely lucky or you didn't even realize your problems 
> were caused by the proprietary drivers or you're just putting up with the 
> problems (such as the driver not supporting the current Fedora when it gets 
> released, it happened several times with NVidia too) without realizing 
> they're avoidable. Probably all 3 of those.
>
>   
In my case, none of the above...


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