On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 13:13 -0700, Gus Wirth wrote: > Tracy R Reed wrote: > > Paul G. Allen wrote: > >> But it was a fun learning curve. > > > > Yes it was. That first summer I spent learning Linux was one of my best > > ever. > > > >> Are you referring to the lack of good 3D drivers for all the various > >> cards on the market? The NVIDIA cards and drivers work great, but if you > >> want a choice other than NVIDIA, it's true, you're basically SOL. > > > > But those are proprietary blobs from Nvidia. They bite me in the ass > > every time I want to do something unusual like compile a kernel with > > xen. Not to mention that I would like it much better if they were GPL so > > I don't have to once again trust my fate to a big corporation. But that > > is a dead horse. > [snip] > > But it will get better. Not sure if you are aware of the Nouveau Project > <http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/> but it is an open source project > to reverse engineer the NVIDIA drivers to get full 2D/3D capabilities > from NVIDIA cards. >
They already have full 2D/3D capability. PGA -- Paul G. Allen BSIT/SE Owner/Sr. Engineer Random Logic Consulting www.randomlogic.com -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
