What I'm saying is that I do NOT want to have to install binary-only drivers from either nvidia or ati. Whatever card I get I want to be able to use drivers w/ source that are included in the x.org package.
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 23:14 -0800, Steven Susbauer wrote: > You don't have to get that old of a card. I'm using an nvidia 5700 and > it works well, and I kno people using even newer cards that work well. > > ATI is, for most people, painful and time consuming to set up. > > nVidia is, generally, much easier to install and use. > > Free and open video card? So are they gonna ship out in cracker jack > boxes? Maybe the DRIVERS are free and open, in which case they only have > the "open" part better than nVidia (though nvidia works VERY well and I > don't mind it being closed). I worry also about how supported they would > be in other operating systems, windows and such? I'd stick to nVidia > only because it's known and works well. OpenGL too! > > > Tres Melton wrote: > > I too am preparing to get a new system and have been watching the AMD64 > > motherboard thread with interest and thought about starting a thread on > > video cards. I am looking to get the most advanced card I can get that > > uses completely Free drivers. I've heard that there is an older Nvidia > > card that is well supported (4200?). OpenGL is important to me as well. > > There is a great interview of Timothy Miller on Kernel Trap: > > > > http://kerneltrap.org/node/4622 > > > > Tim is an avid Free Software user and a graphics card designer that > > works for a company that builds graphics cards for medical and air > > traffic control systems and has convinced his company, Tech Source, to > > fund the development of a completely Free and Open video card. He is > > hoping for a release date of June 2005 but engineering samples are > > supposed to be available earlier to developers of graphics systems (X, > > KDE, Gnome, Mplayer, etc.). When it is available I'll buy one if for no > > other reason than to support the project, but, until then, what is the > > card that the Gentoo graphics developers are using? > > > -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
