On 7/24/07, John Wendel <john.wendel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Since this looks like piss on Nvidia day, I thought I'd join in. First, let me say that I own 4 Nvidia cards (and an original Voodoo card) and I'm about to buy another one (an 8xxx model). So I don't hate Nvidia. But I have no use for the closed source driver since I don't do 3D, but I do want high-end video processing (and nobody beats Nvidia at this). Of course, the free driver doesn't support TV out and I'm sure it will never support an HDMI interface. So I'm stuck with the closed source driver. So how do we get a more light weight driver that does HD video without the 3D junk? If the driver was open, I bet I could gut out the 3D parts. While I'm at it, how about Nvidia using some of that brain power to make something other than a 3D GPU! Maybe a general purpose GPU that could offload X onto the video card (yeah I know, no market).
Already exists. See: http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda.html
