On Tuesday 14 November 2006 16:38, Jonathon Conte wrote:
> >So, with the lack of a Free alternative, NVidia is the much more
> >Freedom-friendly distributor in spite of the lack of a Free driver.
> But there _are_ free (libre) alternatives. The 'radeon' driver provides
> hardware accelerated 3D for several ATI chipsets. Intel has been working
> with Xorg developers and the 'i810' driver provides hardware accelerated 3D
> for several Intel chipsets. There is also the 'via' driver which provides
> accelerated 3D for VIA (Unichrome) chipsets.
Sure there are, but as Levi pointed out do you really want to use them?
I don't see anything beating Nvidia on Linux.
--Steve Szmidt
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