2008/5/4 Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yes. NVIDIA refuses to make a useful open source driver. It is barely > functional and it generally sucks really really bad. Stay away from > NVIDIA when doing open source.
Yes I know about this binary blob. Even FreeBSD users are forced to use i386 on an AMD64 system just to use their damn blob. Actually I used to run Linux on this computer so I can play with the 3D Compiz and stuff... but I just decided to switch to OpenBSD anyway, because I think in the long term, running a blob free system is the way to go. But economically-wise, I would like to keep as many current hardware as possible... because I thought the NV driver would at least have good 2D support for getting through working with a simple desktop environment, such as Xfce4. In the end I guess it just boils down to the question that many people have asked before... are there any down-to-Earth, non-fancy graphics card you can get these days that works well with OSS, when you just want a speedy desktop and don't particularly care about the 3D Compiz stuff... is ATi really the way to go, if you just want a straight forward desktop? Have ATi (or anyone) really got their docs going without NDA, and are there actually exists drivers for them in the latest release of OpenBSD. (4.3-release) I mean, while I do want to keep as much hardware as possible, I can still afford to buy one or two components, if they are actually truly supporting OSS, it is a form of voting with my wallet I guess.
