Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote:
>
> Hi People,
>
> It's just a commentary.
>
> I really regret the day when I buy my GeForce. Since I only found
> out later, there's no open source drivers for such graphic-card (by now I
> don't know). And since Nvidia seems not be interest about Linux since
> they don't give graphic-card parameters so Linux developers can make an
> appropriate driver, I really recommend to not buy Nvidia products if you
> intend to run Linux box at full power.
> Such Nvidia proprietary solution can make the card rock but it's
> worse than using Winblows.
>
> Free Software and Open Source code is the *only* way for Linux.
>
> Hail GNU!
>
> Now I agree with mplayer developer guys. Nvidia is *REALLY BAD*.
>
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> Alan Wilter S. da Silva
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> Laborat�rio de F�sica Biol�gica
> Instituto de Biof�sica Carlos Chagas Filho
> Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ
> Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
I fully agree with you...but...what do you do for 3D accelerated games like
Quake 3, Rune, Soldier of Fortune, etc, etc,...? Sure, you can grab an old
Voodoo but they are showing their age now with the latest games. I've got a 11
year old, and I have a Geforce 2 under Mandrake 8.0 for him. He loves the
games. Only boots into Windoze now for games that we can't play under Linux
(mostly Starcraft networking - and if Transgaming ever gets Winex to play
networking with that game then Windows is dead).
I've not yet heard of a good 3D accelerated card that is completely open
source. The ATI Radeon seems to have potential but I've heard a lot of users
say they never got 3D working right with it...
Just as soon as a modern/fast video card is proven to be easy to setup and
completely open-source, I'd sell my Nvidia in a heartbeat and buy it... ;-)
Later...
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