Hey, I'm a newcomer to the forum and I see bridgman asking around about people want in drivers. Well here's what I want:
I good set of open source drivers for general use, 3D, playback of unprotected content.
When I want to do something "closed" like watch DRM protected stuff or play high performance games, here's my dream:
1) shut off video subsystem on the computer (turn off all display drivers, suspend X, etc)
2) start a virtual machine and boot into Windows. The virtual machine gives the guest OS direct access to the video hardware, so the ATI Windows drivers can take over. (the host video drivers are disabled so there's no conflict)
3) play games, watch blu-ray, whatever. If I need to run Linux programs at the same time, I can use VNC to access the host OS.
4) Shutdown the VM, reactivate Linux open source drivers.
The only thing that's missing is a VM software that can pass through video hardware access to the guest. Then you could just focus on unspoiled open source drivers for Linux, and just let Windows do what it's good for since it's already jacked up with DRM everywhere.
I good set of open source drivers for general use, 3D, playback of unprotected content.
When I want to do something "closed" like watch DRM protected stuff or play high performance games, here's my dream:
1) shut off video subsystem on the computer (turn off all display drivers, suspend X, etc)
2) start a virtual machine and boot into Windows. The virtual machine gives the guest OS direct access to the video hardware, so the ATI Windows drivers can take over. (the host video drivers are disabled so there's no conflict)
3) play games, watch blu-ray, whatever. If I need to run Linux programs at the same time, I can use VNC to access the host OS.
4) Shutdown the VM, reactivate Linux open source drivers.
The only thing that's missing is a VM software that can pass through video hardware access to the guest. Then you could just focus on unspoiled open source drivers for Linux, and just let Windows do what it's good for since it's already jacked up with DRM everywhere.
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