On Thu, 3 May 2001, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 11:25:21AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote:
> > No, you missed something there. I said I've never used a
> > "PCI parport card", not that I've never used PCI. I've used parallel ports,
> > and I've used PCI, but I've only ever used parallel ports that were build
> > into the motherboard (and thus looked like the usual ISA devices.)
> >
> > I'm no stranger to new hardware :) I've got an account on a beowulf cluster
> > of 5 dual-P3 1000MHz linux machines at school. (They're getting more in the
> > future, AFAIK.) At home, my NAT firewall/router/mail server/whatever that I
> > have in my room is a P75, but my main server is a k6-2 @ 375 MHz. I've also
> > got an Athlon 650 with a GeForce 2 MX that dual boots windoze 98 and Debian
> > woody. (I wish nvidia supported Free software. They're being pretty lame
> > about releasing source.)
>
> OK, by bad. :)
>
> I kinda agree with nvidia myself. They've got the 3d graphics market on the
> PC corned. Why would you give away that just for a driver? From what I've
> seen, they have OSSed the kernel-interfaces of the driver. That's fine with
> me.
Now try to run their binary-only drivers on a different platform, say on PPC...
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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