nVidia's policies suck (Was Re: 12 inch powerbook with nividia 32 mg vidioe card)

[Thierry de Coulon]

On Monday 08 December 2003 07:18, Atro Tossavainen wrote:
> Sorry Patrick.  nVidia is to blame.
>
> I repeat, nVidia alone is to blame.
> nVidia provides binary-only drivers for x86.  If you can get them
> interested in producing PowerPC versions of the same, then maybe things
> will get nice and cozy for you.  Meanwhile, I recommend that anybody
> considering running Linux on any computer refuse to buy any further
> nVidia hardware.
>
> Did I already mention that I think nVidia sucks?

Hello Altro,

While I do agree with much of what you wrote, the Nvidia drivers for x86 are 
good and their cards seem fairly compatible - a bit like Matrox's used to be: 
you can change your card and mostly your driver still works.

On the other hand it seems every Radeon card out needs a different driver, 
this does not make life easy either.

And one could blame Laptop makers as well for changing the GPU every time the 
reniew a model.

So I guess what we have to do is show that Linux is a OS to count with, be it 
on x86 or PPC platform.

Thierry

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