Am Montag, 9. Februar 2004 23:54 schrieb Ciaran McCreesh: > On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 23:10:09 +0100 Michael Schreckenbauer > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | Bugs? You as a developer of gentoo should know, that there is no > | bugfree software out there. Why should this be any other with > | nvidia-drivers? Report them, and maybe they get fixed. > > Yeah right. nVidia have consistently failed to fix reported bugs.
That's not good. I never tried it. > Given > the source and the relevant documentation, I can pretty much guarantee > that we could fix these in short order. However, nVidia are doing a > Microsoft here -- being at the mercy of a single vendor with such a poor > track record is not a sane solution. I see. Can you name me only one really good working opensource 3D graphics driver? Why don't these work? You have the source and maybe some documentation. Why do you think, nvidias bugs are so much more easy to fix than the bugs in the open dri drivers? I agree with you in the point, that nvidia being the only vendor of working 3D cards for Linux is a poor situation. But why blame nvidia for this? Ati drivers are worse in my experience, others do not even offer drivers for Linux. Hell, nvidia even has drivers for FreeBSD. Of course I would prefer a better opensource driver for my nvidia card. And of course I'd be happy, if nvidia decides to open their driver for just that reason. But it's their market. And as long as there is no better supported 3D card (with opensource) out there, I see no need for them to do this. Michael -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
