"Manaen Schlabach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems like everyone agrees that Video card manufacturers really > don't want to give up their 3d stuff and that seems to be the primary > reason we can't get a "good" open source driver.
S, sowhat exactly is in the video card drivers they're so paranoid about? I know pretty well how modern graphics _hardware_ works, and software, but I'm not exactly sure what's in this disputed layer. Obviously, the nuts and bolts of sending data to hardware (various protocols for talking to hardware), but that's fairly uninteresting, and it would be silly for them to feel a need to "protect" it. So... what's the "interesting" stuff in the driver that they're trying to protect? Texture management? -Miles -- Is it true that nothing can be known? If so how do we know this? -Woody Allen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
