[MPlayer-users] Re: recomended components for mplayer

gabor farkas gabor at realtime.sk
Fri Jan 3 00:52:27 CET 2003


On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 06:18:02PM -0500, D Richard Felker III wrote:
 > 
> > <flame>
> > pliizz... can we stop this nvidia bashing ? :-)
> 
> No. The nvidia bashing will not stop until their harmful practices
> stop.
> 
> > yes, i'd love if nvidia would release the driver sources
> > yes, i know i can buy an ati or a matrox card.
> > yes, for watching movies i'd buy a matrox card.
> > no, i won't buy an ati or a matrox card, because sometimes i want to
> > play some 3d games, and there aren't any open-source drivers with fast
> > 3d performance for fast 3d cards ( by fast cards i mean geforce3+,
> > ati8500+, matrox parhelia+ )... 
> 
> Arrg, wtf is the point, are you playing the stupid games on linux
> anyway?? If you're dual booting you'd be much better off to use the
> sorry nvidia box for doze and get a nice cheap k6 or duron with a g200
> or g400 for linux.
> 
the point is that if you want a fast 3d card for linux, you need a
nvidia card. that's all.

gabor


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