Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario

Paweł Sikora
2005-12-06T19:12:08Z

Dnia wtorek, 6 grudnia 2005 20:00, Tomasz Torcz napisał:
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 04:49:14PM +0100, Paweł Sikora wrote:
> > Dnia wtorek, 6 grudnia 2005 16:30, Florian Weimer napisał:
> > > * Brian Gerst:
> > > > Once again I'd like to point out that user's purchase power means
> > > > jack when they only have two choices for video: ATI and Nvidia. You
> > > > can't walk into a computer store and find anything else (I don't
> > > > count integrated video on the motherboard as a solution, since only
> > > > Intel boards have it, sorry AMD users). Even over the web it's hard
> > > > to find anything else.
> > >
> > > What about Matrox cards? Are there open drivers for accelerated 2D
> > > operation?
> >
> > Open 2D is nothing new. The OpenGL is a major part.
> > Matrox and XGI (e.g. Volari V3 based cards) have openGL parts closed.
>
> Interesting remark, but false.

I investigated only mtx driver from theirs website.

> Xorg ships open source driver with full 3D acceleration suport forMatrox.

For which card?

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