On Wednesday 20 August 2003 19:21, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > I certainly didn't have to fork out $$$ for the nVidia driver, only the > means to download it...
same as you'd have to for an open source one :) (in disagreement with Volker's position here btw, not Chris's) While Volker's "ease of installation" / "my time is worth money" type argument is good, he obviously hasn't used Gentoo recently ;-) A friend of mine with a Geforce2 card installed Gentoo recently, and he had simply to type: # emerge nvidia-glx and a few minutes later he was playing Quake 3 Arena ;-) At least nVidia provide good linux drivers for their cards, same as they provide binary only windows drivers (which I don't hear complains about). I support them for this and buy their cards. Cheers, Gareth
