Re: [Xpert] Re: [Cooker] Nvidia and ATI - interesting turnaround [and Linux drivers]

[Yoann Vandoorselaere]

Goetz Waschk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 01:13:38PM +0100, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> > Emmanuel Michon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > * the nvidia X4.0.1 ``closed source'' driver is brilliant, almost
> > > the only one usable with decent openGL.
> Did you try to use the newer smpeg/SDL with this driver? It doesn't work
> for me. And I have no chance to fix it, as it's binary only. That nvidia
> driver is certainly a dead end.
> [...]

Not only that, the NVidia binary driver doesn't even respect existing
standards... DRI was created to be used.

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                -- Yoann http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~yoann/
An engineer from NVidia, while asking him to release cards specs said :
- "Actually, we do write our drivers without documentation."