Re: radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

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Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 22:31:22 +0000,
>   Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Suppose I am a newbie for computers, and I decided to buy the latest&greatest 
>> in available hardware (btw, this can make sense if you don't want your machine 
>> to be obsolete by tomorrow).  So when I get to choose a graphics card for my 
>> new shiny desktop machine, which of the two do you recommend to work better in 
>> Fedora?
>>
>> (1) ATI Radeon HD 5970, or
>> (2) nVidia Quadro FX 5800
> 
> (3) Don't buy either if you are planning on using 3d graphics in Fedora right
> now.
> (4) Buy a second inexpensive card for use in Fedora. Or reuse one of the many
> cards you have sitting around after replacing your video card every year.
>  
Agree, buy a cheap totally unaccelerated card which you can run with the vesa 
driver. Video in Fedora will get better, or it will become so little used no one 
will care. When/if decent video support returns you can get a supported card.

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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
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