On Mon, 28 May 2001 03:50:26 -0700
Eugene Kuznetsov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well if you want my personal opinion,
> 1) having good closed-source binary drivers ( NVIDIA ) is better than
> having bad open-source ones or not having drivers at all ( ATI ). Last
> time I wanted to install XFree with ATI video card, I had to download
> and build XFree86 CVS because the card was not supported by 4.0.3, and
> still XFree crash periodically on that machine.
Well, I didn't have first hand experience with OpenGL cards from ATI
under linux. I only read the nice theory here
http://www.ati.com/na/pages/corporate/press/1999/4241.html
and it seemed to be going in the right direction. I still think the
direction is right, only the road ahead could be long, before they reach
stability.
> 2) I haven't ever seen any bad video cards from NVIDIA or any good
cards
> from ATI. It is especially noticeable when it comes to running OpenGL
> apps ( such as Counter-Strike ).
Nvidia seems superior from a hardware point of view (I don't know
anything about ATI Radeon, it could be good), so it's a pitty they ruin
their image in the linux world with closed source drivers.
Also Nvidia cards are much cheaper (because Nvidia does only the design,
others make the chip, and a variety of manufacturers make the cards), as
opposed to ATI that does everything. 3Dfx used to apply the same losing
technique and they ended up bad. It would suck to have nvidia conquer
it all, and not have any competition.
I don't know how the nvidia.com drivers work, but in the kernel, I see
only DRI support for ATI and Matrox.
Anyway, things beeing as they are, can avifile be fixed to cope with the
nvidia.com drivers? So far, with some luck, it displays the movie along
with ugly artifacts, other times it displays a black window.
I run XFree with "nv" driver to view clips and "nvidia" to play games.
This sucks, wouldn't you agree?
The original question was, if you were to access to the source of the
nvidia drivers, wouldn't it be easier for you to fix avifile to work
well with nvidia cards?
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