I've avoided NVIDIA's video cards like the plague for the last few years, because I really dislike the idea of being tied to a proprietary driver. Now I am faced with a problem: basically the only high-performance video available on laptops is NVIDIA. I know about the proprietary binary-only drivers that will provide full 3d acceleration. I don't play games but I do use 3d data visualization (not realtime). What I would like to know is: if for whatever reason NVIDIA stop supporting the Linux drivers, will I be SOL and stuck with an unaccelerated card? Or is there a viable Free alternative that will provide at least some acceleration? (There is this: http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/ --- anyone tried it?) What about emulating the GPU in software (assuming a fast dual-core CPU)?
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