F8 vs F9

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Wed Aug 13 19:08:00 UTC 2008


On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Lyvim Xaphir <knightmerc at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 09:42 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
>> On Tuesday 12 August 2008 15:50, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
>> > If you have ATI, F8 is the only way to go.  F9 is not good for ATI
>> > cards, the ati drivers won't support any x server greater than 1.4.2.
>>
>> I presume you mean for accelerated desktop effects?  Certainly for 'normal'
>> use there is no problem.
>
> "Normal" is folks who want to get the money out of their hardware as
> opposed to a GNU cultist that's willing to accept substandard behavior
> in the driver


You casually call them cultist, but you feel comfortable using their software?

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