[MPlayer-users] xv overlay dies with nVidia card

D Richard Felker III dalias at aerifal.cx
Thu Apr 14 00:18:03 CEST 2005


On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 11:42:46PM +0200, Winterbird wrote:
> nvidia is really, really good compared to ati when it comes to drivers,
> a friend of mine was very happy when ati finally released the graphic
> drivers for Linux AMD64, but when he found out that the ati drivers was
> slower than the ones in xorg he wasn't that happy any more...

drivers should never be written by the vendor; specs should be
provided and a competent unbiased third party should write the driver.
someone who's happy when a vendor releases a driver is
naive/windows-brainwashed.

rich





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