Max Lemieux said the following on 06/28/2005 04:49 PM:
I feel obliged to point out that the open source X11/Xorg "nv"
driver works great with Nvidia cards, at least for basic 2d use
- it doesn't support 3d acceleration yet, though. This is
probably because Nvidia has been very good to date about keeping
up with their binary driver, and maybe the developers have been
focusing more on getting the newer vendor-unsupported-on-Linux
ATI cards up and running...
I believe ATI released their specs. NVidia didn't. It has
little to do with how good the proprietary driver is.
All else aside, I understand and accept your wish to run
completely open source :)
-Max
Insurance. And besides, its just the right thing to do.
--
Allen Brown
work: Agilent Technologies non-work: http://www.peak.org/~abrown/
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It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
--- Sir Winston Churchill
Allen C Brown wrote:
The NVidia specs were never released, even after it was
clearly obsolete. Given a choice I will always buy from
manufacturers who release specs so that an open source
driver can be written.
This is really important if you want to be able to occasionally
update your install/kernel. Otherwise you are hostage to
NVidia deciding they don't care about Linux drivers any more.
I now run Debian. No proprietary drivers. I bought an
ATI FireGL X1. ATI could go belly up tomorrow, but the
2.8 kernel released in 2007 would support it.
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