Sure, I read about it on May 13th on /. : http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/13/1659245
So this should be more than a rumor...at least I hope so, but my next laptop will have an Intel graphics chip, because it will take some time until ATI/nVidia open-source drivers are bug-free - at least the people at Intel care about their drivers and Linux in general, and there are quite good drivers in the kernel for the onboard graphics cards of almost every Intel chipset. (965 is not supported yet, for these devices you need external driver modules [?]) Peter Ganzhorn On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 20:06 +0200, Flyser wrote: > > The even better news: AMD will make their drivers open source somewhen > > in the future, it was recently announced. Maybe nVidia will open their > > drivers as well after AMD did > > Any links about this? I think it is just a rumour. I recently heard, > that amd is not allowed to make their drivers open source (maybe because > of the NDA) ?! > _______________________________________________ > Power mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
