On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared Ciaran McCreesh commented thusly,
> On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 19:30:06 +0600 (LKT) Grendel > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <snip loads of nvidia fanboy stuff> > | Hmm...Yes I know the incident but ATI also does it, all the major > | manufacturers tweak there drivers so that certain benchmark utilities > | like 3dmark, quake3, and splinter cell all run faster (or appear to > | run faster). Its commonplace and not really cheating. > | > | NVIDIA was forced to do this because the creaters of benchmark utility > > How much are nVidia paying you to spread this junk? Before you go any > further, I suggest looking up the little memory corruption problem in > the LKML archives. Or the virtual console problem. Or the amd64 issues. > Or the sysfs screwup. Or any of a dozen other bugs that nVidia won't let > us fix. Well if you dont like the NVIDIA driver so much, then dont use it period. Just stick with the opensource driver from XFree. the reason they arent open sourcing is that they are (justifiably) afraid that ATI will have a look at their driver interface to the card, then they (ATI) can figure out the current wekneses of NVIDIA cards and improve there ATI's based on that. Its not that they dont like the linux community, if that is the case they wouldnt even bother about releasing even a closed source driver. Just get realistic and tell me does nvidia make a profit by writing a driver for linux, no way at all, the windows market for nvidia cards is much greater than the linux desktop market which is very small. So they are doing a service and if you dont like what they are producing then instead of grumbling just use any other driver you like. Even if they open sourced it, it would probablky take years for people to figure out how the code works, remember that 3d cards are really rocket science. Bye, Grendel -- Hi, I'm a signature virus. plz set me as your signature and help me spread :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
