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On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 03:05:59AM +0000, Jon Masters wrote: > I like this, because you're both openly extolling the virtues of > horribly proprietary video drivers as if there's no problem :-) That's a fair point, I should have mentioned that the official Nvidia driver is a closed-source binary driver. But there's also the community driver which while not nearly as good, is Free. > As a result, it's difficult now to know who to go with. I do know that > the Ubuntu guys (and others) are more likely to recommend Intel graphics > (so was claimed at the FOSDEM last week) because support is apparently > more forthcoming than elsewhere. I admit that I do now own exactly one > device with an Nvidia graphics chipset, but I'm running the open source > driver, which can at least be supported on some level by the community. > > My point is, next time you get one of these cards or a laptop with a > graphics chipset in it for which you think there is super supoort, check > that it's not in the form of a closed source binary only driver and that > the vendor is actually working to get support into upstream Linux. > > If you still don't think I have a point, try telling the Linux kernel > community about any problems you have with a closed source binary only > driver and see how far that gets you. It's impossible for the community > to help you when you use one of these things. Yep... I guess I should amend my statement to 'ATI and NVIDIA suck (no official free software drivers), but ATI sucks more (no decent official linux driver period).' Ward. -- Pong.be -( "Thanks, and THIS time it really is fixed. I mean, how )- Virtual hosting -( many times can we get it wrong? At some point, we just )- http://pong.be -( have to run out of really bad ideas.." -- Linus )- GnuPG public key: http://gpg.dtype.org
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