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NVIDIA to provide documentation for Nouveau

NVIDIA to provide documentation for Nouveau

Posted Sep 24, 2013 8:43 UTC (Tue) by Duncan (guest, #6647)
In reply to: NVIDIA to provide documentation for Nouveau by imgx64
Parent article: NVIDIA to provide documentation for Nouveau

Very possibly, I'd guess.

Meanwhile, whatever the reason, it's welcome. Perhaps one of these days nVidia can come off my purchase-blacklist. AMD/Radeon (and Intel, but they seem to only do embedded graphics) might get some competition! =:^) (Tho I was stuck on the Radeon r2xx generation for several graphics generations, for similar reasons. =:^( But that's a few generations in the past now, and with this news, perhaps I'll be able to say it's generations in the past for nVidia as well in a few years. =:^)

Now if only "Sony, The rootkit people (tm)", would properly apologize as well (with "properly" including doing something of a similar order to what they robbed from their users to restore what was lost in both that incident and when they took Linux away as a Playstation option, as well)... maybe it could come off the blacklist too. Not that I'm really expecting it, but change DOES seem to be in the air in so MANY areas I wouldn't have expected a few years ago, these days... (Resisting the temptation to further off-topic enumerate!)


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NVIDIA to provide documentation for Nouveau

Posted Sep 24, 2013 12:59 UTC (Tue) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link]

I'm a Matrox fan (this system is running on a G450 iirc), but they don't seem to do consumer level cards any more.

Last I looked at their stuff, you're looking at fancy prices in the £K region for fancy stuff, nothing in the consumer £50-£200 range.

Cheers,
Wol

NVIDIA to provide documentation for Nouveau

Posted Sep 24, 2013 13:20 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

Matrox made a wrong turn many years ago: it refused to license GPU chips and produced all the cards in house. This reduced it's market reach, which in turn implied that it had not way to compete with ATI and nVidia. It's swan song wan Parhelia which was pretty cool card for video work, but was meh for gaming. And they have nothing more modern thus of course they left the consumer market.

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