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Originally posted by pingufunkybeat View PostHaha, I love the "curve ball" argument.
Poor nvidia, suffering from the "curve balls" by the evil community, instead of simply releasing the specs for the hardware millions of people have purchased, and are not allowed to use, understand, or program.
But no, it's the "curve balls" that are the problems, but our heroes are dealing well with such brutal attacks.
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Originally posted by glxextxexlg View PostNo they won't "rage" if the company drops binary support for their 2 year old r600-r700 hardware and when open source drivers will not be mature enough to make rage work. They'll rage instead.
They dropped support for 5-year old chipsets.
That gives r600/r700 (which are very similar to program) another 3 years.
The only thing the free drivers are missing is OpenGL 3.1 support (this is 2/3 done) and performance optimisations.
I think that the drivers will be in a really good shape in 3 years.
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Originally posted by pingufunkybeat View PostSome more FUD.
They dropped support for 5-year old chipsets.
Download the English (US) Linux Display Driver Version 96.43.19 for Linux 64-bit systems. Released 2010.11.16
The problems with AMD opensource driver are following:
- ultra small crew
- development support is not connected to selling of cards(buy, don't buy - no matter)
-- same day support will hardly ever happen(maybe same half-year support is realistic)
- it will never reach full possible speed due to absence of close-to-hardware tools and direct communication with designers.
- no video acceleration, probably will never appear
If you buy a discrete card, 99,99% of people that do that, expect performance from it. Either its closed source or opensource matters maybe for 10% once they realise its either proprietary and functioning or opensource and inferrior code. Sadly, Nvidia has way better proprietary. So the decision for them is obvious.
Untill AMD realises this. Until it decides to change it. There will be no change in amounts of cards from AMD deployed under linux.
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Originally posted by D0pamine View Postrather than pointing and laughing at the lack of X/Y/Z in free software - get coding or stfu?
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