Binary-only kernel modules may be banned
Posted Dec 14, 2006 4:40 UTC (Thu) by
mightyduck (subscriber, #23760)
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Binary-only kernel modules may be banned by moxfyre
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Binary-only kernel modules may be banned
Sorry, but you're dead wrong! We don't do any 3D stuff but we can't live
without the closed-source nvidia driver. Have you ever tried to get a
dual-DVI card with 1600x1200 resolution to work with the free nv driver?
Don't waste your time, it doesn't work. And our trading desks have up to
6 monitors and 2 or 3 video cards and noone is playing games there, I can
tell you that much.
And if you look at the newest ATI cards, they don't work AT ALL with the
radeon driver. You won't even get 2D acceleration without the fglrx
driver because the only working open-source driver is the vesa driver.
And unfortunately, several newer laptop models contain this stuff.
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