Hardware upgrade

[dep]

quoth Kurt Wall:

| > Just curious. Have I been hiding under a rock or have you? I've
| > read post after post from people who can't get the ATI drivers to
| > work at all on 2.6. Gentoo users would probably reverse your
| > comment. Nvidia does have problems with new kernel releases, but
| > they do seem to respond a little more quickly than ATI.
|
| Perhaps I'm simply misinformed,then.

in my experience the ati drivers well and truly suck. but the xfree 
drivers for ati chips work really well, though configuring them can be 
problematic (as in getting a safe-deposit box to store a floppy 
containing a copy of XF86Config once you *do* have is worked out).
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dep

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