Alan Coopersmith wrote: > René Rebe wrote: > >> Aaron Plattner wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 09:26:11AM -0800, Henry-Nicolas Tourneur wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I would like to know if there are any plans to add XVideo support for G90 >>>> cards to the nvidia free 2D driver. >>>> >>>> >>> I'm afraid not. XV on those GPUs requires the 3D engine, and setting that >>> up is too complicated to be within the scope of that driver. >>> >>> >> Which are just other words for "we do not want open source guys to know how >> to do that", hm? >> > > I thought they were other words for "It's a lot of work we already paid people > to do in the encumbered driver, and don't see any profit in paying them to do > again in the open one." Companies usually are more interested in their > bottom lines than in crushing the dreams of open source users. > Thanks for the extended verbose version, I took the quick-path this morning.
However, the bottom line should be: showing the specs would cut their development and Q/A costs for the open source OS driver in the future as the encumbered driver apparently does not fill the needs of many people on non-Windows OSs (be that it's simple not available [think PPC] or prevents the use of latest software versions / technology, etc.). -- René Rebe - ExactCODE GmbH - Europe, Germany, Berlin http://exactcode.de | http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.name _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg