alright, fine. buy me a new ATI Radeon and i'll switch. otherwise, i'm stuck with my current video card, the GeForce II.
when i bought that card, it was (almost) the best consumer product available. i bought it because i was doing a lot of 3d rendering and i needed some major juice. as an example, my old video cards would start choking in lightwave around 10,000 polygons. the GeForce doesn't actually choke until @53,000 (same CPU and motherboard) while i do not like the "un-openness" of nvidia, until i have enough money to get another high-end video card, i'm stuck with them. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jacob Meuser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 1:04 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [EUG-LUG:483] nVidia > > > On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 09:53:25AM -0800, Justin Bengtson wrote: > > > > the various BSD's, of which none have > > nvidia support > > What makes you say that? It's true, nVidia is "one of the > bad guys", one > of those manufacturers that's completely uncool wrt OpenSource: > > >From the "License For Customer Use of NVIDIA Software" > (which includes > drivers): > > 2.1.2 Linux Exception. Notwithstanding the foregoing terms of > Section 2.1.1 (note: Section 2.1.1 is your basic one copy > per user/ > computer clause), SOFTWARE designed exclusively for the Linux > operating system (sic) may be copied and redistributed, > provided that > the binary files thereof are not modified in any way (except for > unzipping of compressed files). > > 2.1.3 Limitations > No Reverse Engineering. Customer may not reverse > engineer, decompile, > or disassemble the SOFTWARE, nor attempt in any other > manner to obtain > the source code. > > So, yes, the fancy features of the nVidia cards won't work on > *BSD, but > the *BSDs use XFree86, which does support nVidia cards in a > generic manner. > > nVidia might release GNU/Linux binaries (and ONLY binaries), > but that does > NOT make them OpenSource friendly. It also means that > GNU/Linux does not, > and probably never will support nVidia. What it means is that nVidia > supports GNU/Linux because it doesn't want to lose market > share, which, > IMO, deserves to go to companies that DO release hardware info and/or > source code, or at the very least, would allow reverse engineering. > > -- > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > PS Ed, Jamie, I just subscribed with the address > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > because I'm tired of getting bounced mail when sending from > work ... is > there any way that you could make it so I only GET mail at > [EMAIL PROTECTED], or do I need to add more procmail rules > to delete one > when they come in? Also, > http://www.rocksolidnetworks.com/list.html is > a 404. > >
