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From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Linux & Motherboard
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:58:05
Message-Id: 1206464215.28523.35.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Linux & Motherboard by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 17:08 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
2 > > The nv driver has *no* 3D acceleration and limited 2D acceleration
3 > due
4 > > to nVidia's refusal to release the specs needed to create a decent
5 > OSS
6 > > driver.
7 >
8 > since the nv driver is written by nvidia, who needs specs?
9
10 The nv driver is crippleware and, without efforts like nouveau, there is
11 no *real* OSS driver that can fully take advantage of the hardware
12 without the specs.
13
14 -a
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