Paul G. Allen wrote:
On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 19:51 -0700, Ralph Shumaker wrote:
Paul G. Allen wrote:
Well, more than once I had problems getting functions to work in Linux
that were supported by my NVIDIA based card (e.g. - Fast Writes, SBA,
AGP 4x). I was able to get it working by modifying the source code
supplied with the NVIDIA driver. That made me happy until they (kernel
maintainers and NVIDIA) updated the software (kernel and driver) to
support everything I needed.
Then you weren't happy anymore? Why not?
Reading that again, I can see how you might have thought that, but
that's not what I meant.
When they updated the drivers and kernel, implementing the missing bits,
all was right with the world without me having to maintain a separate
driver for my card (at the time, both the MoBo and video card were so
new neither the kernel nor NVIDIA had complete support for them).
When I was a registered ATI and Matrox developer I did not get that kind
of support from either of those companies. As for NVIDIA, even though
I'm a rather stagnant developer, I still get updates from them as to
what's going on and if I need assistance, I can get it.
PGA
I guess I shoulda put a ;-) in there. But I'm glad I didn't. It's
kool to know that NVIDIA cares more about stagnant developers than ATI
and Matrox cares about registered developers.
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