I was about to buy an geforce 6800 & toss this ati card.

In the interest of saving money I will wait to see what happens here, but ATI has already lost my confidence.

From what I have seen in press reports and actual activity:
NVIDIA likes linux
ATI treats linux like baggage, a "necessary evil ...

It downgrades you because ATI has yet to write drivers that work with 6.8.0.

I recommend e-mailing them that you are rather annoyed about this.

Then switch to nVidia because it becomes more obvious with every driver release that they do not care.

Delete .Xauthority in your home directory.

If ATI doesn't get on the ball *quick* with these drivers, I will most certainly buy an NVIDIA card next time around.

Regardless of performance or price.

To understand prelinking you need to understand a little bit about linking :).

I am no expert in the field, but I can give a really high level overview of what's going on.

Basically, when you compile a program, there are some things that cannot be figured out at compile-time. For instance, the ...

Here are some tips for you,

I am running Gentoo on a very similar box, and right now my laptop next to me is bootstrapping.

march=pentium4 works now, I know because I have bootstrapped with it on, I have compiled kde/qt/gnome/gtk with it on, I even modified the kernel makefile to use it (2.6 ...

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