OT Mini-RANT: fc5: wifi & ndiswrapper

[Darrin Chandler]

der.hans wrote:

> If I were wanting to upgrade to a new graphics card what options are
> there? I looked around a bit today and it didn't look good. Maybe I was
> just looking in the wrong places.


There don't seem to be a lot of options.

>
> XGI and Via announced last year that they were going to release the 
> source
> code for their drivers under the GPL. Via is something I've thought 
> about,
> but everybody laughs at me when I suggest it...
>
> I found out about XGI recently because Brian told me that ATI is
> purchasing XGI. Looking around it looks like the source code for XGI 
> still
> hasn't completely seen the light of day.
>
> The ATI Free Software drivers seem to be thought of as a bad joke.

They don't need to write drivers if they open the specs. ;)

>
> There are no Free Software drivers from nVidia. Perhaps X has some 
> anyway.


Xorg has a generic "nv" driver, but you don't get many goodies using it. 
That's what I'm using. No GL, etc. Perhaps a later version has added 
features. I wish I'd opted for an ATI. I'd have more support than I do now.

> BTW, I think Broadcom is in Scottsdale. Should we go picket the office 
> for
> a few days? :)


Sounds like fun. We need something good to write on the signs...

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