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OLS: Open source graphics driversOLS: Open source graphics driversPosted Jul 20, 2006 7:18 UTC (Thu) by maniax (subscriber, #4509)Parent article: OLS: Open source graphics drivers
" David noted, with amusement, that both ATI and Nvidia withdrew support at about the same time that they got Xbox contracts. "
Is there something I've missed, because I don't seem to have heard the news that NVidia are no longer supporting linux...
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OLS: Open source graphics drivers Posted Jul 20, 2006 8:25 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link] supporting linux properly with documentation and stuff. At least under the NDA.
Especially ATI was fairly decent. They helped out with their 8500 ATI cards. Nvidia had that 'utah' drivers. And he was right about that. ATI closed off completely right about the time they got Xbox 360 contract.
With Nvidia stuff I don't know so much. Maybe they helped out with the Utah GLX stuff.
Btw, if it wasn't for high end markets wanting to replace aging SGI boxes with Linux on cheap PCs there wouldn't be any propriatory drivers for Nvidia or ATI cards. At least with ATI. Originally their drivers were only for their workstation class cards, but people massaged them to work with consumer class cards.
Now ATI is even refusing to let open source 2D drivers work with their r500 series cards.
OLS: Open source graphics drivers Posted Jul 25, 2006 12:43 UTC (Tue) by pointwood (guest, #2814) [Link] You can't help but wonder whether that is connected or not...it's not like MS haven't done similar things before...
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