Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for more than $32B

Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m... by posguy on Friday July 31, 2020 @11:46PM (#24017302)

How so? Aren't you still trapped on Xorg with their proprietary drivers?

I switched to Wayland a few years back as vsync is quite nice to have, but whenever I go back to Xorg for AnyDesk or TeamViewer on AMD or Intel there is a fair bit of tearing.

Nvidia could have a competitive open source driver tomorrow if they released redistributable firmware that allowed reclocking the GPU.

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Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m... by lmm on Saturday August 01, 2020 @12:41AM (#24017690)

> How so? Aren't you still trapped on Xorg with their proprietary drivers?

As a FreeBSD user I'm still "trapped" on Xorg anyway, and in any case I'd rather stick with what works than learn some whole new way of doing things for marginal benefits.

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Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m... by AsyncAwait on Saturday August 01, 2020 @11:12AM (#24021034)

This is the sort of mentality I left the *BSD world for. Xorg is not some elegant codebase that's being unfairly targeted by an upstart.

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Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m... by lmm on Monday August 03, 2020 @04:59AM (#24035481)

> Xorg is not some elegant codebase that's being unfairly targeted by an upstart.

I never said it was. I said it's a whole new way of doing things for marginal benefits; is that not accurate?

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Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m... by floatboth on Saturday August 01, 2020 @01:53PM (#24022482)

You're not. I've been using Wayland exclusively on FreeBSD for a couple years now, with both AMD and Intel GPUs.

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Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m... by pmontra on Saturday August 01, 2020 @02:01AM (#24018042)

How do you go back to Xorg? Logout/login and/or reboot or is there a better way? I'm asking this because I often need screen sharing to work with my customers (demoes, check problems, etc) and I'm sticking with Xorg because Wayland doesn't do screen sharing.

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Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m... by rhn_mk1 on Saturday August 01, 2020 @01:06PM (#24022050)

Or even if they simply stopped signing their firmware. Nouveau has been perfectly capable of writing their own firmware.

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