[MPlayer-users] Re: Display card recommendations
Steven Adeff
adeffs at rpi.edu
Mon Sep 16 13:40:02 CEST 2002
I haven't posted in a while, but this prompted me to. Arpi, I can understand
the desire for open source drivers, but in the competetive world of video
cards, you can't fault a company for desiring closed drivers to protect their
IP rights. I find it especially annoying that you fault NVidia of all
companies for doing it. They have proven in the Windows world that they can
produce excellent closed drivers. They have often released drivers that
double or so the performance of their cards while maintaining stability.
Something that ATI and Matrox haven't been able to do. So yea, maybe ATI and
Matrox need help in creating good drivers, but don't mount your holy campaign
against NVidia because of it. Use the same amount of effort on a company that
won't produce drivers for their hardware AND won't release specs for a open
source driver. The linux community could use it more.
p.s. no flame bait intended by this, its just frustration built up from
reading your posts for the last few months, etc.
On Sunday 15 September 2002 08:32, Arpi wrote:
> :(((((
>
> i've downloaded the driver...
> yes it looks like have no Xv, and no driver source (only src for kernel
> driver included)
>
> anyway looking at the driver binary:
>
> GCC:
> (GNU) 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98)
>
> they must be mad :)
>
> so, the conclusion: one less opensource supporters on the vga line... :(
> even the ati radeon 8500 driver is binary-only.
> but there is at least opensource Xv and vidix for ATI cards...
>
>
> A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team
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