Better open drivers and docs

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

Nvidia really seems to be the odd man out here at this point.  VIA has 
published a good deal of documentation and has contracted Harald Welte 
to help them in their efforts

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjYyMg

http://lwn.net/Articles/291517/

ATI drivers are getting better too with David Airlie (Red Hat) working 
on it.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjYyMQ

Rahul

[Harry]

On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 07:23 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
>
> Nvidia really seems to be the odd man out here at this point.  VIA has 
> published a good deal of documentation and has contracted Harald Welte 
> to help them in their efforts

I have had issues with NVidia in last few weeks with dual screen,
finally gave up my dream of having dual screen and went with on board
VGA.

I still have issues when I turn Desktop effects on FC9, the computer
goes really really slow,not sure why? well if some one could help me on
this, sorry if i have dragged away from  the actual topic

Current Drivers: Intel 82A963/Q965 integrated Graphics Controller

Thanks
Harry

[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

Rahul Sundaram escribió:
> Hi
>
> Nvidia really seems to be the odd man out here at this point.  VIA has 
> published a good deal of documentation and has contracted Harald Welte 
> to help them in their efforts
>
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjYyMg
>
> http://lwn.net/Articles/291517/
>
> ATI drivers are getting better too with David Airlie (Red Hat) working 
> on it.
>
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjYyMQ
>
> Rahul

Indeed, with AMD, VIA and the recent announcement from Atheros about 
their ath9k driver (and improvements on their ath5k driver), Intel and 
their GEM, and many, many other hardware enhancements. Sure AMD will 
still have their binary blob for graphics, but they're coming clean with 
open source support for their products, open source 3D support for their 
recent hardware should arrive soon, and maybe their previous hardware 
can get improvements from these recent releases. Interesting times indeed.