F8 vs F9

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Lyvim Xaphir <knightmerc at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 14:08 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>> 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?
>
> First of all, it's not the property of the cultists, it's everybodys
> property.

I don' know about that. I do know that it is their efforts however.
What have you done?


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