Also, the hardware manufacturers can tweak their nda-contracts and reduce the
fees needed to create the drivers in the first place. Also, they could
actually publish the driver specification a few weeks ahead of market-time to
allow for the development of free and open-source (drivers) modules for them
hadware devices. But sometimes they can't do that, because of some
contractual issues, and then the open-source community is left with heavily
experimental patch-it-in-on-your-own-kinda-solutions. I had a situation like
this years ago, what did i do? Yank the card and get a decent one that has
proper modules, bingo, and i do play rtcw at 70-odd frames a second on my
333celeron using an nvidia2. 8-)
Cheers
Szemir
On July 18, 2004 00:02, Andrew Graupe wrote:
> Let me start by saying: I like linux. I think the world would be better
> if everyone used it, and at least a bit more spyware free. That being
> said, I have just spent most of the day trying to get 3D acceleration
> with my integrated S3 UniChrome chip. I will say this in favor of
> nVIDIA and ATi, at least they're common enough that people have come up
> with workarounds for the various linux bugs. I write this near
> midnight, after a marathon session of patching, kernel recompiles, and
> other unpleasantness. That being said, I will still have to reboot
> often if I want optimum performance because gentoo-dev-sources (which is
> fast for normal things) can't be patched to work with VIA video chips.
> I think I'll stay with this for now. At least if the Neverwinter Nights
> install (the entire reason I'm doing this) goes without a hitch, it will
> mean a great advancement in terms of linux games. I guess we don't hear
> about linux games that much because it's so phenomenally hard to get to
> this point.
>
> I don't mean to flame or troll, but this is the truth. Linux could be a
> *TEENSY* bit more userfriendly. If the patches for VIA support are out
> there, why haven't they been merged into the main kernel tree? I have
> to think that VIA is a fairly big value-mobo manufacturer (the PC in
> question is an HP; imagine how many are out there), so it's not a fringe
> brand. At least it's done now.
>
> Regards,
>
> Andrew Graupe
>
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