With that, I really dont care. Its nvidia’s fault for not making the drivers
open source anyhow. The Kernel crew, xfree86, and dri would gladdly ship
nvidia drivers with X and the kernel if they were open source.
They have license agreements with SGI over parts of their drivers which do
not allow that. If you were aware of the 3dfx situation, they were unable
to release one iota of specs or code for the Voodoo Rush card (2+3D Voodoo
Graphics) because they didn’t own the IP for the 2D part. Nobody bothered
to try and figure out how it worked and modify the Voodoo Graphics drivers
to work with it. No surprise there, who still has either card? Voodoo2
cards are practically free nowadays and have been since the time of the
spec release.
While the drivers have a number of really annoying bugs (especially Xvideo
issues), NVIDIA cannot be faulted for refusing to give up specs for their
cards. They were willing to give up exactly what they give to their own
driver programmers. That wasn’t good enough.
Well, it costs them money. Already, the tuxbox project is dropping nvidia
hardware (was gonna use the gf2mx series, shit, but hey, its a console)
For raedon VEs or 7500s.
That’s too bad. The Radeon really has crappy feature support in Linux
right now. To this day, there is still no support for T&L. While none of
us care much for the &L part (OpenGL light sucks, no matter how fast you
make it!), the lack of hardware transforms will really hurt a lot of games
such as Tribes 2 and I think also RtCW. Granted those aren’t likely to be
huge games on the Tuxbox since you don’t normally think about keyboards
and mice at the TeeVee, but if the intent is to put out something that can
have quality games like those found on the Playstation 2 or Xbox, the 7500
just isn’t going to cut it by a long shot.
Actually, I think rms in a flaming troll sometimes. But hey, thats him. =)
Hopefully he will gpl his dna, then we can alter it and take out the troll
dna, and then clone him using the new dna, kill -9 the original, then ./rms
Some have argued the same about me. I certainly have no problems
saying something I expect will not make me very popular, especially if I’m
aware that others agree, but don’t want to say anything…
The GPL is basically a good license. Richard’s goals are in line with
mine until they clash with my sense of a need to choose free software over
the alternatives rather than have that choice made for me. And, as I’ve
already indicated, I don’t like his negotiating tactics. But that doesn’t
detract from the overall idea that free software and open standards are
good things. That’s why many of us are here, isn’t it? SDL is quickly
becoming one of those open standards. (Whew! Nice topic save!)On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 06:06:59PM -0500, Patrick McFarland wrote:
–
Joseph Carter Sooner or later, BOOM!
That reminds me, we’ll need to buy a chainsaw for the office. “In
case of emergency, break glass”
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