Submitted 04-Sep-00 by Asheesh Laroia:
> What about the latest NVidia chip? Reviews I've read
> (www.tomshardware.com) say they're faster.
Until they stop providing binary-only drivers, no Nvidia chip is going to
see the inside of a box I build. Linux support for both the Voodoo series
and for SB-Live! is phenominal. The reason for this is the open source
drivers. The original driver from Creative sucked. Might as well have not
had sound. Within a month of it being open sourced, quality was up to the
standards people expected of the card.
A binary only driver locks you into a particular kernel version as well.
OSS gets around this by recompiling everything everytime there is a new
kernel release (2.2 series). But look at the poor souls who had Aureal
sound cards and depended on binary only drivers for them when Aureal went
out of business. I'm not suggesting that NVidia is in danger of bankrupcy.
I am suggesting that you're going to be screwed if they decide to stop
updating the drivers.
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