Per Jessen wrote:
John wrote:
There is also a bit of oss snobbery concerning closed source drivers eg Samsung printers and why can't for instance nvidia drivers be maintained surely the give the interface away freely.
If the interface and the specs are freely available, someone will write the driver, I guarantee it. Chances are they're not - at best they're available under a severe NDA with promises of death and destruction if it is violated. The graphics card people tend to be very tightlipped.
And idiotically so. It's not like there's any great mysteries about how to do graphics. Even 3D graphics was fully specified in the late early 1970's, including changing point of view, and everything you could imagine having to do with ray-tracing (the math behind ALL of it is expressed completely in a handful of equations.)...and the more modern things like "textures" are hardly a secret. The DirectX API pretty much reveals any and all advancements. (the graphics card makers WANT DirectX to have functions which use whatever new capabilities the graphics card makers come up with). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org