Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Nov 2003 22:24:22 +0200 | From | Pasi Kärkkäinen <> | Subject | Re: Announce: ndiswrapper |
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On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:41:21PM +0100, Diego Calleja García wrote: > El Thu, 20 Nov 2003 15:59:46 +1100 Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au> escribió: > > > I must say that I've been using the same nvidia drivers on my desktop > > system for maybe a year, and never had a crash including going through > > countless versions of 2.5/6. True you need to recompile the intermediate > > You're lucky. > Nvidia drivers are broken, and it's not just linux. Their windows drivers > are know to be buggy, too. And this is happening in windows (which has a > "windows driver model" abi which doesn't change even between W9x and nt) > > Also, they don't support non-x86 architectures in linux (they have drivers > for mac os X though) > If there're a lot of binary drivers for linux, we'll have the same hell > microsoft has (w2k and XP are rock solid, until you start using crappy > drivers, then everybody complains about blue screens). A stable and defined > abi (like their driver model) doesn't work for them, it won't work for us. > > I don't mind running propietary code...but not in the kernel. > > (BTW, are there modern graphics cards with 100% opensource drivers?) >
None of the new chips (r300, any nvidia, matrox, etc) has opensource 3D drivers.
If you want good 3D support (OpenGL) you need to use binary drivers :(
DRI (opensource) opengl-drivers have support for only ati r200 and older cards.. so nothing new. And DRI drivers don't support the advanced features of these cards.. so no shaders etc :(
OpenGL support in DRI drivers feels also more buggy than Nvidia/ATI binary drivers :(
So the situation is not good..
-- Pasi Kärkkäinen
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