Re: Accelerated video cards and non-free firmware

2009-03-10 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 10, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: The firmware used for 3D acceleration in the r128 (ATI Rage 128), radeon (ATI Radeon) and mga (Matrox G200/G400/G550) drivers is non-free and will be moved from the linux-image packages into a new firmware-linux package starting with Linux

Re: Accelerated video cards and non-free firmware

2009-03-10 Thread James Collier
On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 08:46 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Mar 10, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: The firmware used for 3D acceleration in the r128 (ATI Rage 128), radeon (ATI Radeon) and mga (Matrox G200/G400/G550) drivers is non-free and will be moved from the linux-image

Re: Accelerated video cards and non-free firmware

2009-03-10 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 10, James Collier james.collier...@gmail.com wrote: Currently there is a Free implementation of a driver for NVidia cards This is not relevant, we are not discussing drivers. /*** Please try to keep your .signature to a

Re: Accelerated video cards and non-free firmware

2009-03-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 08:46 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Mar 10, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: The firmware used for 3D acceleration in the r128 (ATI Rage 128), radeon (ATI Radeon) and mga (Matrox G200/G400/G550) drivers is non-free and will be moved from the linux-image

Re: Accelerated video cards and non-free firmware

2009-02-26 Thread Harald Braumann
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:28:39 -0500 Daniel Dickinson csh...@bmts.com wrote: Hi, I'm looking at getting a video card, and I want to know what video card that has 3D acceleration to get. Normally I'd ask on -users but as the subject says I want to know what video cards will still have

Accelerated video cards and non-free firmware

2009-02-25 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Hi, I'm looking at getting a video card, and I want to know what video card that has 3D acceleration to get. Normally I'd ask on -users but as the subject says I want to know what video cards will still have acceleration when the non-free firmware is removed from the kernel, which is supposed to

Re: Accelerated video cards and non-free firmware

2009-02-25 Thread William Pitcock
On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 16:28 -0500, Daniel Dickinson wrote: Hi, I'm looking at getting a video card, and I want to know what video card that has 3D acceleration to get. Normally I'd ask on -users but as the subject says I want to know what video cards will still have acceleration when the