On 13/04/2009, Dieter <[email protected]> wrote: > In message <[email protected]>, > Josephblack writes: >> 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: >>snip > Binary drivers have many problems: > > - Some cause data loss in unrelated parts of the system. > > - Some have security holes.
This is good. Would anyone have any authoritive links about this? Seen Any good Quotes? > > - Some have bugs. I notice wine has a lot of problems due to the drivers being incomplete or not up to the windows standard. On recent bug caused many problems and the poor users could not work out why the games suddenly stopped. One wineuser list entry seems to point to nvidia(?) being the problem. Will see what I can find. > > - None support the variety of OSes and CPU architectures we need. For > example, NetBSD supports 59 platforms. Ouch. good point. And with their cards, there is no way it is going to change. Can someone put together a list of these? it would make quite a graphic point. > > - Even if they provide a binary driver for your OS/CPU, it probably doesn't > support all the hardware features. > > Even proprietary chips that are getting documented have problems: > > - We need hardware video decoding. ATI has not documented UVD/UVD2, and > might not ever document it. OGP doesn't have hardware video decoding > yet, but when it does it will be documented. > > - ATI doesn't support sync-on-green. (And probably doesn't support > composite > sync either.) > > - OGP will support using a TV as system console. > > None of these problems can be fixed by the end user. Any one of them > could be a total show stopper. thanks! > Joseph, re your recent email. They broke gmail and it no longer accepts > mail from me. I haven't had any ideas for posters, sorry. no problem. Thanks again for the help. JHB _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
