ATI video comes out of the closet

Frank Cox theatre at sasktel.net
Thu Sep 6 22:55:44 UTC 2007


On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:52:50 -0700
Bruce Byfield <bbyfield at axion.net> wrote:

> It's very likely that the Nouveau project will have free drivers for
> Nvidia within about six months.

While good, it's still not as good as having proper open-source drivers
supported by the manufacturer as well as the community.

The Noveau driver project faces the same unfortunate situation with Nvidia as
the OpenOffice folks do when reverse-engineering the MS doc format:  there is
nothing stopping Nvidia from making a few "improvements" that will break the
Noveau drivers more-or-less at will.

So yes, Noveau is a great project with substantial promise.  But it's still not
as "good" as the current state of affairs is with regard Intel video chipsets,
and the apparently forthcoming situation with ATI.

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