On Thursday 01 January 2009 17:54:02 John E. Perry wrote:
1) the ATI (now AMD) situation that much of their capability cannot be used until the Linux pros finally succeed in guessing what the sequences are to get to the advanced features;
2) the nvidia situation that the manufacturer actively supports linux by writing their own complete drivers, but keeps them closed to the public;
ATI has been providing drivers for their cards for quite some time (not very good ones, but their drivers were never very good for any OS), and for some time now they have published their hardware specifications as well (see the radeonhd project). It takes a long time to write good drivers for 3d, it's not just "calling functions on the card" the way it would be for a network card, for instance, but no guesswork is involved Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org