From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Linux & Motherboard
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:56:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1206464215.28523.35.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803251708.16676.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>
On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 17:08 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > The nv driver has *no* 3D acceleration and limited 2D acceleration
> due
> > to nVidia's refusal to release the specs needed to create a decent
> OSS
> > driver.
>
> since the nv driver is written by nvidia, who needs specs?
The nv driver is crippleware and, without efforts like nouveau, there is
no *real* OSS driver that can fully take advantage of the hardware
without the specs.
-a
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-25 16:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-24 22:43 [gentoo-user] Linux & Motherboard Nicola Degl'Innocenti
2008-03-24 22:59 ` Galevsky
2008-03-24 23:00 ` Neil Walker
2008-03-25 9:17 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-03-25 9:31 ` Galevsky
2008-03-25 13:18 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-03-25 13:53 ` Albert Hopkins
2008-03-25 14:51 ` Galevsky
2008-03-25 16:08 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-03-25 16:48 ` darren kirby
2008-03-25 17:02 ` Albert Hopkins
2008-03-25 16:56 ` Albert Hopkins [this message]
2008-03-25 9:50 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-03-25 23:43 ` ionut cucu
2008-03-26 0:09 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-03-26 0:45 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-03-26 7:16 ` ionut cucu
2008-03-25 17:45 ` Joseph
2008-03-25 19:18 ` Nicola Degl'Innocenti
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