I read a little bit about the current state of video cards, etc - man this seems like an uphill battle😅 Basically no manufacture sympathizes with the concept of total transparency.
I was just thinking what the practical end-game of this might be - do you think at some point there will be an FPGA+power+various I/O ports kit that can be totally programmed to provide CPU and video acceleration? Something like that might be the only way to end this nonsense😅 Then the battle will be proprietary vs free software rather than hardware. But then again, I don't know what kind of nasty patents there might be... -Yasu > On Mar 28, 2021, at 03:25, Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 10:14:05AM -0400, Bone Baboon wrote: >> X server worked fine with this NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 GPU when Debian >> was installed on this computer. It also looks like Debian uses a >> deblobbed kernal based on this Wikipedia article. >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_blob > > The Guix kernel (linux-libre) and the Debian kernel (Linux) have > different hardware support and, in general, Linux supports more hardware > than linux-libre. >