Nvidia PR Responds To Torvalds' Harsh Words

Re:Nvidia PR Responds To Torvalds' Harsh Words by jlgreco on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @08:09PM (#4134935)

Didn't AMD release a ton of documentation for their GPUs specifically so that the open source radeon drivers could become a realistic option when using their GPUs?

Nobody I know with an AMD GPU uses the propriety fglrx drivers.

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Re:Nvidia PR Responds To Torvalds' Harsh Words by TylerE on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @09:18PM (#4135161)

Open source 3D drivers will have a hard time EVER being useable for anything beyond glgears... everything in that space is going to be really patent encumbered.

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Re:Nvidia PR Responds To Torvalds' Harsh Words by jlgreco on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @01:04AM (#4135705)

Frankly, if you are looking to play games than you are wasting your time with any of the available GPU/driver combinations on Linux.

If that's not what you are after, then I don't know what more than working KMS and enough "umph" to run a compositing window manager you could need.

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Re:Nvidia PR Responds To Torvalds' Harsh Words by tadfisher on Monday June 25, 2012 @12:54PM (#4157355)

> working KMS

Something that NVIDIA refuses to support :)

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Re:Nvidia PR Responds To Torvalds' Harsh Words by ajuc on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @05:34AM (#4136242)

Fortunately most of the world don't care about software patents :)

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