[MPlayer-users] Re: Display card recommendations

[Steven Adeff]

I haven't posted in a while, but this prompted me to. Arpi, I can understand 
the desire for open source drivers, but in the competetive world of video 
cards, you can't fault a company for desiring closed drivers to protect their 
IP rights. I find it especially annoying that you fault NVidia of all 
companies for doing it. They have proven in the Windows world that they can 
produce excellent closed drivers. They have often released drivers that 
double or so the performance of their cards while maintaining stability. 
Something that ATI and Matrox haven't been able to do. So yea, maybe ATI and 
Matrox need help in creating good drivers, but don't mount your holy campaign 
against NVidia because of it. Use the same amount of effort on a company that 
won't produce drivers for their hardware AND won't release specs for a open 
source driver. The linux community could use it more.

p.s. no flame bait intended by this, its just frustration built up from 
reading your posts for the last few months, etc. 

On Sunday 15 September 2002 08:32, Arpi wrote:
> :(((((
>
> i've downloaded the driver...
> yes it looks like have no Xv, and no driver source (only src for kernel
> driver included)
>
> anyway looking at the driver binary:
>
> GCC:
> (GNU) 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98)
>
> they must be mad :)
>
> so, the conclusion: one less opensource supporters on the vga line... :(
> even the ati radeon 8500 driver is binary-only.
> but there is at least opensource Xv and vidix for ATI cards...
>
>
> A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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