On Monday 10 March 2003 12:53 am, George Mitchell wrote: > Robert L Martin wrote: >> Problems with ATI and nVidea products.
> And the real irony here of course is that ATI chipsets are NOT closed > source. Er, AFAIK, they are, but OSS X drivers have been written anyway. There are also OSS X drivers for the NVidia cards, but no decent 3D (haven't tried 4.3.0 yet), for the same reason. The day I get decent 3D speed out of an OSS driver is the same day NVidia's software black boxes leave my system. > My ATI Radeon in fact works splendidly with OPEN SOURCE > XFree/DRI software under Red Hat 8.0. OK, so what's the difference? Perhaps unpacking and diff'ing the appropriate RPMs is in order? Now, before release? > The same is true of /dev/sequencer support under a number of > cards that used to work with OPEN SOURCE drivers but no longer do. When > you ask questions you face silence, or some wise one chiming in with 'Oh > thats because its proprietary'. The world will forgive Linux companies > for NOT supporting closed source products like nVidia, but OPEN SOURCE > hardware that does not work simply because the priorities are elsewhere > will not play well with potential desktop consumers and attempting to > paint known open source products as being closed will not play well > either. True. Cheers; Leon
