On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 16:01:45 +0000, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > As for 3D and closed source drivers... If you buy a nVidia card, you can use > their closed source drivers, and they basically Just Work. If you buy an ATI > card, you can use... oops, sorry... you *cannot* use their closed source > drivers, because they do not support your version of X. Or you can opt for > open source radeon driver... oops, sorry... you *cannot* opt for radeon(hd) > driver because ATI did *not* disclose the specs for their HD family of cards. > > <sarcasm> > And as you know, ATI is very open-source-friendly, unlike those nVidia guys... > </sarcasm> nVidia's stance is that they neither help nor hinder the Nouveau project. That could certainly be worse. They could be trying to actively prevent that effort. ATI provides documentation for their cards. That is better than having them write their own open source drivers. They did provide specs for their HD family cards. My memory is that there are some features that aren't documented related to DRM on multimedia. (Doing that may risk them getting in trouble with the MPAA and related trade groups.) I am also not sure of whether all of the r800 (evergreen) documentation is out yet. But I believe that the documentation for chips through the r700 series is available. > So when it comes to 3D support for Linux and Fedora, some talk the talk, some > walk the walk. Decide for yourself who is more useful to you. And different people disagree on the way to measure walking the walk and come to different conclusions about which companies are doing this and which aren't. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
