True, but ATi's "open source" driver has a bug too, and it's not fixed yet. I can't even get anyone interested in fixing the bug. :-( That's the main reason why I bought an nVidia card. Open source is great, if you've got an expert on hand to fix it from time to time. Sometimes, tho, having a company write drivers for you isn't a bad idea.
>Maybe you right, but the real reason of this "hoopla" on nVidia's >closed driver is the fact that one is unable, for example, to correct >some specific nVidia bug for your graphic or video programme that one can be developing. While in general I agree with you, nVidia does have an important IP to protect here, one that would even the playing board for Matrox and ATi. Someday nVidia will decide to open-source their drivers, unless Linux takes over Microsoft's marketshare (I wish). But for now, nVidia is interested in providing Linux drivers. Let's applaude them for writing good drivers, not scorn them for not open sourcing the driver, especially when so many companies won't "put their money where their mouth is" when it comes to supporting Linux. It's easy to just give the DRI project your specs, costs a lot more to support your card _yourself_. Terry >So, that's why I think that nVidia should give, at least, a >good list of specifications, on the contrary, I think, >perhaps some nVidia >users can get limited and have to wait for nVidia driver >release. >Actually, I'm not sure if such a impossibility will one day >happen, but I simply do not like the idea that such risk >exists.
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