Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: NVIDIA Driver 1.0-6111 fix | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Sun, 05 Sep 2004 20:23:40 -0400 |
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On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 19:20, J.A. Magallon wrote: > On 2004.09.05, Horst von Brand wrote: > > Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> said: > > > Tim Fairchild <tim@bcs4me.com> said: > > > > [...] > > > > > > Users don't really care about open and closed source. They just want > > > > to play quake 3 (etc). > > > > > I have never understood why these people don't just run Windows. > > > > Some run Linux because it _works_, and also want to play. > > > > and why do people think that a fast 3d card is only used to play ? > I'm involved in graphics modelling, 3d simulation, 3d realtime and so on. > Try to run softimage on top of software GL... > Or run a lighting simulation of a building on top of the nv+mesa combo.
These users I would expect to use a 3D card with open source drivers, since correctness is more important than performance in these situations.
I am more interested in using hw-accelerated 3D for GUIs for audio apps. It's by far the cheapest way to update banks of meters, etc. A binary only 3d driver is out of the question, it's hard enough to get it all to work when you have the source...
Lee
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