Hallo, Jan Depner hat gesagt: // Jan Depner wrote: > Just had to reply to this. It's a controversial issue, so I expected replys... > Where I work we use NVIDIA graphics cards exclusively. Why - > because they are the only graphics card manufacturer with an > accelerated 3D driver for Linux. Yes, it's closed but we have no > choice since we are working with software that requires accelerated > 3D drivers (IVS' Fledermaus). Graphics card manufacturing is a very > competitive industry so I can understand their position on this. > OTOH, I agree completely about the motherboard. I understand your motives. I have a Matrox 450 here, which has open source 3D acceleration, but not very much of it ;) In fact, when only graphics cards were concerned I didn't care much. I sometime raised my voice, but I don't *need* to run the fastest 3d card (I still have a Dreamcast), so it wasn't that important to me. The latest Nvidia mainboard activities however really upset me, because without (open-sourced) mainboard drivers the whole system is getting useless. So this is fulfilling my prophecies: That Nvidia used their closed Linux drivers to get a foot in the door. Now even ATI doesn't release specs for several of their cards. It's going in a bad direction. Unfourtunatly to a lot of users closed source drivers are not an issue, as long as it works (fast). But what we get into here is a situation just like we audio folks had some years ago when the only pro-soundcard drivers were a commercial product by 4Front. ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__
