On Wednesday 28 February 2007, David Brodbeck wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
Ah, Peter, I hate to break it to ya, but that process constitutes a problem. It shouldn't be necessary, and its not with any card but ATI and Nvidia.
Unfortunately it's sort of the price you have to pay if you want decent 3D performance. ATI and NVIDIA have a good thing going with their 3D support, and they're understandably reluctant to release the trade secrets of how they do what they do.
Nor is anybody asking them to. All they need to do is put their "secrets" on the chips and keep their drivers free of patented or secret code. The insistence on moving most of their copyrighted/patented property indo binary driver blobs is what gets them in trouble. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org