Danger with NVIDIA drivers 180.29

Posted May 18, 2009 18:03 UTC (Mon) by daenzer (subscriber, #7050)
In reply to: Danger with NVIDIA drivers 180.29 by sbergman27
Parent article: Danger with NVIDIA drivers 180.29

> Probably my vote for the "Lifetime Embarrassment Award" would go to the perpetually unfinished open-source Radeon driver.

(No) thanks for the award; it's very rewarding and motivating for the people who've put effort into improving those drivers, isn't it.</sarcasm>

There's no question that as far as features and performance are concerned, currently no free drivers compare to the major IHV proprietary drivers. However, it's quite disappointing to have to read something like the above on this site, from someone who judging from his other comments seemed to have some appreciation for what free software is (not) about.

Danger with NVIDIA drivers 180.29

Posted May 18, 2009 20:32 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Yeah. It's embarrassing to have drivers that have Just Worked on every
Radeon card I've tried them on for the last eight years.

The trick is to look for those cards that already work reasonably well,
not to think 'ooh, the driver's called "radeon" so anything ATI ever made
should work perfectly'.

(but you know that of course)