Re: ati vs nvidia
Daniel Cassidy <[email protected]>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 25 September 2003 10:49 pm, Daniel Cassidy wrote: > On Thursday 25 September 2003 9:26 pm, Timothy R. Butler wrote: > > Actually, ATI's drivers do utilize the 3D capabilities of the card, > > but they are not Free Software/Open Source, they are binaries. XFree86 > > has drivers based on the specs ATI has provided, but they are 3rd party > > developed and do not support accelerated 3D > > > > ATI may eventually go with a Free Software driver, but only when the > > Radeon R3xx series is no longer competitive. > > There seem to be a number of contradictory sources on the matter, not least > ATI's own website. > > I for one will wait and see what happens, but won't be rushing out to buy a > Radeon anytime soon Having said that, this page seems to clear up the matter: http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/ATI?action=highlight&value=CategoryHardware In a word: bugger. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/c2cz1nHeH53c6l4RAg9aAJ9J36rlKM/6n7W8qVaJ0OxaajrEQgCeKRmF 7TuPW3ye9wM20rT8qo9LJho= =ICG5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Kde-cafe mailing list - [email protected] http://ofb.biz/lists/listinfo.cgi/kde-cafe DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this mailinglist are the personal opinions of the author and do not represent OfB.biz: Open for Business, KDE or the author's employer.