22 May
2003
22 May
'03
12:57 p.m.
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
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