Geoff Jacobs wrote:
Joe Landman wrote:
Geoff Jacobs wrote:
No nvidia for me unless they open up driver specs. Open drivers have a
history of being very, very stable if not as fast. Nvidia does have good
drivers, but I have definitely seen them experience problems.
Silicon Image SATA drivers are great examples of open drivers that have
been (in the past) terrible. The tg3 drivers have been very bad (start
sending lots of packets and watch your CSW climb and climb and climb).
Forcedeth are still terrible, and are open. The nv driver in X often
breaks on newer hardware (the laptop I type this on is a testament to
this problem).
There is no magic bullet :)
... nor are there free lunches ... :)
I was referring specifically to graphics drivers. Sorry.
Whoops... the ATI drivers have been well ... um ... not that good (the
open ones) for a long time.
I'm surprised the nv driver has problems, as it is contributed to by
NVidia.
Yeah, kinda shocked me ... laptop with a Quadro FX/360, and whammo ...
no display. Had to load the nvidia ones by hand to get a display.
Hopefully (crosses fingers) Ubuntu 8.04 will fix this ... hopefully ...
fix (as in not break!) this ...
No, open-ness doesn't equate to good-ness. Open-ness equates to
portability, ability to hunt for problems on your own and correct them
if need be.
I find that open-ness tends to allow better integration (less problems
when switching between kernel framebuffer and X, for example). As well,
I don't like the idea of having hardware orphaned because it just got
EOLed and NVidia or ATI is not going to support it in future driver
releases.
Yeah, this does bug me too.
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