Congratulations! I would like to do it too but unfortunatelly I can't.
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Originally posted by NSLW View PostYes but don't you think it would be worthier to wait one maybe two years for ATI open source drivers to improve? They will have beautiful drivers, maybe even better than NVIDIA and I think it's worth to torture yourself one maybe two years with open source/fglrx drivers. I really do think so and i think ATI does think the same.
The second lemonade stand serves me lemonade instantly with ice.
The only people that would wait two years are those already do very odd and questionable things that defy common sense in new and interesting ways.
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Originally posted by gsmd View PostOK, used a 9400gt for some time and must say that nVidia totally rocks. 1080p output via hdmi just works with cpu load around 3-5% (xbmc). And I haven't even touched xorg.conf! And why should I care if the thing is opensource or not?!
I personally like when I install linux, I don't have to download a binary closed driver to get my network working. I also like when I play song on my newly installed distro, that I don't have to find and download a soundcarddriver... Ohh, and I also like when my motherboard seem to work without special binary closed ATA/SATA drivers. Hmm, I guess I like opensource.
Actually I will also like when I plug in my livecd for my favorite distro, and get flawless KMS and dri2 driven composite with my radeon card + while I browse the internet and listen to music with the buildin open source drivers for my networkcard and soundcard ;-)
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I don't like all this because I can't update the drivers. They're embedded in the kernel. I prefer to update them when new versions come out rather than wait for the linux kernel to update them all at once and also break stuff. Why should I update the kernel? I just need the drivers.
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Originally posted by RealNC View PostI don't like all this because I can't update the drivers. They're embedded in the kernel. I prefer to update them when new versions come out rather than wait for the linux kernel to update them all at once and also break stuff. Why should I update the kernel? I just need the drivers.
As mirv says, you can always just download new drivers from xorg.org, and compile it to your kernel. Then you can have old kernels with new drivers.
If you don't like to compile things, just install Arch, which is always updated with the latest stable driver releases.
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