Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: NVIDIA Driver 1.0-6111 fix | | From | Alan Cox <> | | Date | Sun, 05 Sep 2004 13:04:55 +0100 |
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On Sad, 2004-09-04 at 22:22, Lee Revell wrote: > I have never understood why these people don't just run Windows. I have > also never understood why people make so much noise about having to use > a closed source driver to play A CLOSED SOURCE GAME! What's next, a > petition to open the UT2004 source? Sheesh...
Because a lot of them happen to like running things on Linux, or having the webserver still work while they are blasting aliens. You could ask a few of them. Thats a rather good idea when you don't understand why people do something. They also play a lot of open source games - bzflag, cube, flightgear (which does need a high end video card to do well), gl-117, neverball etc. Take a look at the happypenguin website some day.
> I suspect many of these users are ricers who tweak CFLAGS and compare > benchmark scores all day, and cannot bear to use the open source driver > if it will make their machine 1% slower. I was surprised to find that
There is certainly a strong Gentoo gaming contingent.
> apparently there are open source ATI 3D drivers after all but some > people are petitioning ATI anyway because these 'aren't as good' as the > binary ones. So fix it already, this is open source, and if you can't, > then please learn to write code or STFU.
The source code ones only go for R2xx series, not R300/R400. A browse of the documentation would have told you that. Whether this will change nobody knows. Perhaps as R3xx ceases to be leading edge ATI will be nice to us.
Alan
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