At least at Nouveau field, there seems to be ZERO interest in sign any kind of NDA with NVIDIA...Nouveau team seems not capable to reverse engineer some stuff of Nvidia , not until Hell freezes anyway, and they don't want to sign any NDA that could solve thje issue....then again, sign the NDA will tint the FOSS...
NVIDIA, OTOH, won't change their position and won't disclose the relevant info w/o an NDA....
I really don't see Nouveau go much further than it is...
As for playing with Nouveau and WINE....only in very simple games or very powerful PCs....i also have serious doubts about image quality, hell in some games even with the blob is crappy...if theres a performance hit with WINE+NVIDIA it's even worse with WINE+NOUVEAU....
Just like i gave up on Windows i also gave up on WINE for gaming...it simply is too much hassle to play games with under performance...WINE is great, but for other things , as for gaming, the best use for it was to allow me finally install UT2004 with a Native Linux Client (it was only way to extract the CABs and then manually install the Linux (patched) files and move everything to /usr/local/games/ut2004 ) , finally can play native UT2004 !
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I'd expect Valve to get all their stuff ported first before working on how it works with "optional" (from an outsider's point of view, not mine) drivers.
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View Postwell regardless, IIRC, opengl 3.0 is still incomplete for FOSS drivers.
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Originally posted by RussianNeuroMancer View PostOpenGL 3.0 is enough for Source Engine on OS X.
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostI'm not entirely sure but I think the Source Engine requires opengl 3.2
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Originally posted by 89c51 View PostHope i am wrong on this but i suspect they don't care much -at least at the moment. They collaborated with the FOSS intel team because there is nothing else for intel. On the ATI and nVidia front they are collaborating with the blob teams.
I'm sure in Valve's point of view, they want a customer experience that is complete and consistent. That's why they want proprietary drivers (or drivers that are 99% actively developed by 1 company, like intel's) and why they chose to work with Canonical. The fact that Valve has even attempted cooperating with FOSS drivers or the blob drivers for that matter is pretty commendable. The fact that they're making a linux release at all is just plain awesome.
For those who are whining that the radeon and noveau drivers arne't getting (as much) attention is just plain aggravating to me. Yes, they need improvement, but don't think that's why valve is ignoring them in the first place? That's like telling a doctor to heal someone with cancer when there's someone with the flu who can actually be healed quickly. I support the efforts of radeon and nouvea and they've made a lot of progress, but valve attempting to fix them is a waste of their time and resources when there's already a functioning and better performing alternative. I personally would prefer steam and the source engine be released within a month on blob drivers than wait a half year or more so they fix up the FOSS.
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Originally posted by M?P?F View PostYep, haven't heard back from them. Let's hope they don't forget us.
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Originally posted by Michael View PostI personally put them in contact with mupuf of Nouveau.... Corbin Simpson of Radeon too.... Corbin was supposed to be flying out there a few weeks ago for an interview or something but haven't heard back since. Last I heard from mupuf is that they weren't really communicating and then yeah not sure if they're oding anything with Corbin right now.
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Originally posted by Michael View PostI personally put them in contact with mupuf of Nouveau.... Corbin Simpson of Radeon too.... Corbin was supposed to be flying out there a few weeks ago for an interview or something but haven't heard back since. Last I heard from mupuf is that they weren't really communicating and then yeah not sure if they're oding anything with Corbin right now.
As for why they haven't done anything more i have no idea. I hope that at some point they will invite the devs to their offices to play around.
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Originally posted by 89c51 View PostThere was a comment on the Valve blog by someone of the team that said that they have yet to collaborate with the other FOSS driver teams (radeon, Nouveau). Don't know why they haven't done it yet but i really hope they do.
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