On Monday 14 May 2007 10:32:08 George wrote: > http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/13/1659245&from=rss > > > "Henri Richard, AMD's VP of sales, has promised to deliver open-source > drivers for ATI graphics cards (recently acquired by AMD) at the > recent Red Hat Summit. A series of good news for proponents of > open-source device drivers. In the last year, Intel, the leading > provider of integrated graphics cards, has opened their drivers as > well. But ATI and NVidia, the only two players in the market for > high-performance discrete graphics cards, have so far released only > closed-source drivers for their cards. This has created numerous > compatibility, stability, and ethical problems for users of Linux and > other open source OSes, and prompted projects like Nouveau to try and > reverse-engineer NVidia drivers. Hopefully AMD's decision will put > pressure on NVidia to release open-source drivers as well!"
Ar fi super, m-am chinuit sa setez o placa ATI de mi-au iesit ochii (driverul lor actual nu merge cu kernel > 2.6.19 si nici cu Xorg > 7.1). Cel putin nVidia reuseste de bine de rau sa tina pasul cu Xorg si kernelul... -- Serghei Amelian. _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lug.ro/mailman/listinfo/rlug
