bnvidia, gl, & open source (was mini-rant)

[Josh Coffman]

--- Dan Lund <situationalawareness at gmail.com> wrote:

> As far as broadcom chipsets, alot of them have the
> firmware pumped
> into the chip at insertion. :(  ndiswrapper I *hear*
> works, but I
> never bothered enough to try.

Yes, it works fine; even fairly good.

> 
> As far as adobe acrobat, there is an acrobat reader
> by Adobe for
> Linux.  Of course there is also xpdf.
> 
> As far as nvidia drivers, go to nvidia.com and
> download the linux
> drivers.  Yeah, they are 3D, but not officially
> "open".  BUT they
> work.
> 

I have used the nvidia drivers and will do so again if
there aren't open alternatives with better features
than nv.

> ATI just SUCKS driver-wise, and Intel's middle of
> the road.
> 
> --Dan
> 
> On 3/29/06, Josh Coffman <josh_coffman at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > So, speaking of open sourc vs.proprietary...
> > I have three non free items I use on my laptop:
> > 1) windows broadcom drivers (via ndiswrapper)
> > 2) adobe acrobat reader
> > 3) nvidia drivers (although I'm not currently
> running
> > it on fc5)
> >
> > 1. The open source alternative for my built in
> wifi
> > card is out there, but not polished or packaged
> yet.
> > I'll be switching asap.
> >
> > 2. If someone can give me an alternative to
> acrobat,
> > I'd be happy to use it. It's likely something is
> out
> > there and I'm just not out there. And I need it to
> > work with firefox.
> >
> > 3. What do I do here? the nv driver works fine for
> > email and word processing, but not eye candy or
> the
> > occasional graphics work I do. (color accuracy
> could
> > be a matter of config stuff which I don't know. I
> use
> > an external monitor when doing graphics.) If there
> is
> > an open source driver for nvidia cards which
> supports
> > 3d, I don't know about it.
> >
> > For future reference, how is the 3d support for
> ati or
> > intel cards with free drivers? I need to replace
> my
> > desktop.
> >
> >
> >
> > ����
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> >
> >
> >
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