On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 05:24:21PM +0100, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Saturday 23 November 2002 16:53, Josh McKinney wrote: > > On approximately Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 10:53:50PM +0100, Thomas > Kallenberg wrote: > > > Hi!! > > > > > > Well.. I thought these would be open-source driver... or what > > > happend. Does anybody know something about that?? > > > > > > TK > > > > It is my understanding that ATI first releases the driver with > > closed-source, then after a while they open-source them. > > AFAIK, ATI doesn't release open source drivers ever but provides specs > to developers who can show that they might be able to produce something > that works. Are there any companies manufacturing video cards with Free, stable drivers that have decent 3d acceleration performance, plus Xv, XRender and all the other such goodies? NVidia and ATI seem to have taken the consumer market and compete on having stupid driver licenses. -rob
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