[mythtv-users] Nvidia drops support for open source driver

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Sat Mar 27 00:13:36 UTC 2010


On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> On Friday 26 March 2010 05:11:15 pm Brent Bolin wrote:
>> http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/03/26/2240250/Nvidia-Drops-Support-Fo
>> r-Its-Open-Source-Driver _______________________________________________
>
> Is this just the Open Source driver? I assume the "binary blob" proprietary
> driver for Linux will continue?
>
> While I'd prefer to see a totally open source driver, I'm not fanatical about
> it, and I can certainly understand that nVidia would not want to potentially
> give away information that might aid its competition.
>
> As long as the "blob" continues to be available for Linux, I can continue to
> get hardware acceleration under Linux, and it's "free" (as in beer). I'd even
> pay a reasonable fee for a Linux driver, though I'm sure I'm in the minority
> here.

Imagine if they tried that on windows!


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