Josephblack wrote, on 2009-04-13 15:17:
Our front page does not adequately explain why we need an open
graphics card. Here are a few problems I have seen with helping those
who insist upon nvida cards and closed drivers:
You cannot always update the kernel when you like. How you like.
no one can alter it, debug it nor fix it.
You have given up your freedoms over your own computer.
Please list what problems you see with using proprietary cards: What about ATI?
for example: Andy mentioned in the past, their bios restricts how it is used.
With ATI, there is still firmware that is not considered free by the
Debian Free Standards Group (in the firmware-linux package).
Also with ATI, it is difficult to buy a new graphics adaptor or
motherboard with on-board ATI graphics that is fully supported by the
Free drivers (which still depend on the above firmware for
acceleration). The old Radeon 9200SE in this almost-eleven-year-old
machine supports acceleration using the non-DFSG-Free firmware and Free
driver, but the Radeon 3200 HD on a just-purchased Asus M3A78 Pro
motherboard does not (yet) support acceleration with Free drivers. (The
new motherboard does support disabling the on-board graphics adaptor and
using PCI or PCIe as the primary display adaptor, so it could run an OGP1).
we can then use this as a basis for updating the front page and the faq.
thanks
JHB
Arthur.
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