On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 09:08:02AM +0100, A J Stiles wrote: > On Sunday 23 Sep 2007, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > > > there is a heavy bug in NVidias driver. The bug let the whole system > > unexpectly freeze. But, this is not a Debian related problem, it is caused > > by the binary part of NVidias accelarator driver and touches most other > > distributions, too (like SuSE, RedHat etc.) > Which is one more reason -- as if you needed another one -- NOT to use > binary-only drivers. Why are the IT ministries of the world not standing up > for our RIGHT to access the Source Code and BANNING binary-only drivers? > > Keep it i-tal, buy only hardware which has Open Source drivers; and keep > campaigning to your elected representative. We need Freedom Three as much > today as we ever have. >
So what video card has an Open Source driver that can access all hardware accellerated functions? In my case, I would like the hardware mpeg convertions to work. I have an Nvidia EN7300GT card and get much better picture quality when watching DVDs full-screen with the debian-packaged Nvidia driver than with the nv driver. The card only cost me $40 CDN so I don't mind replacing it with a better card if anyone can recommend an OpenSource alternative. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]