AMD vs. nVidia binary driver?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:38:30PM -0500, Jamon Camisso wrote:
> How long ago was this? Long enough ago that they were still branded as
> ATI I expect.

Oh 6 months maybe?

> Things have changed with the switch to AMD from what I can tell. For
> example: I have a new 6850 card. The Linux driver doesn't even
> officially support it yet, but the installer ran just fine and I am up
> and running with nicely accelerated graphics.

I keep hoping for that, but some things certainly have not changed.

If your hardware is not really new, they won't support it, even for
hardware that is still being sold.  At least nvidia has legacy driver
series to handle that.

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