>If the Nvidia drivers do what you need, that is nice for you. >They do have problems, however. Problems that result in lost data. >I will not be buying any Nvidia graphics cards due to the driver problems. > > Me? Right now, I'm seriously considering replacing this cursed thing with an ATI 9200, if I can still get them. I have that installed on a couple of other machines, and it has worked beautifully. The drivers are open-source and included in Debian.
I actually went around the surplus shops and bought myself a bunch of matrox cards.
However -- I have much Fear Uncertainty and Doubt about ATI continuing to deliver for the open source community. They have not been so forthcoming with data on their later products, or so I am told. This concerns me. It suggests corporatist treachery (well, actually suggests cowardice in the face of patent insanity, but that's a whole 'nother kettle of fish, of course).
In spite of all the discussion about cost and feature balance etc... all that matters to me is access to the cards programming api. I have been trying to write graphics a system for years and in spite of all the advances gained by the card and chip manufacturers non can be experimented with except a few obsolete radeons. Who can tell me which registers to tweak during bootup in a geforce card? Im trying to bootup a desktop is less than one second. I have a subsecond system startup already but the damned bios takes 30 seconds or more. Any answers from ati and nvidia? I dont think so. An open card is important for developing new stuff. -- www.smsglobal.net SMS Global Ltd Short Message Service For Seafarers _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
