On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 01:06:06PM +0300, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
> ATI Tech (nvidia's main competitor) is doing the Right Thing (TM),
> helping the community in developing Open Source drivers for their
> products (Radeon).
You would be doing a very stupid thing, because:
- nvidia drivers are way better than ATI, for Xv/aviplay and for opengl/quake3
- I don't like closed source drivers, but they are better than nothing which
is what I get from ATI.
- nvidia does answer email questions about their drivers pretty fast (1 day)
- contrary to your claims, everything from ATI sucks. Hardware is inferior.
Response to email takes 2 months if you're lucky (if you aren't you don't
get any answer), and basically says that they "don't have the information I
want". Technical documentation is non-existent, as is linux-support and
thusly open-source drivers are lacking features such as TV-out or motion
compensation. ATI is just big mouth and no action.
I know this from 1st hand, I got one ATI card in my notebook and one in my
multimedia jukebox, am subscribed to gatos-devel (the mailing list for
opensource drivers for ATI cards), am following the progress very closely, I
took a look at the driver source a couple of times and tried to manipulate the
registers to get the frellin' tv-out workin' which resulted in a couple of
freezes.
> What do you think?
You need a reality check. You'd do much better job bitchin' in the right
direction, i.e. ATI.
Let the flamewar begin :-)
Bye,
Peter Surda (Shurdeek) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ICQ 10236103, +436505122023
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