[nylug-talk] Video Cards....

[Ah Pook]

On Wednesday 08 November 2006 2:46 pm, Joseph M. Gaffney wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 November 2006 14:21, Ah Pook wrote:
> > On Wednesday 08 November 2006 10:13 am, Joseph M. Gaffney wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 08 November 2006 09:59, Ruben Safir wrote:
> > > > Well, to my limited understanding, there is still no free
> > > > drivers for any current video card on the market.
> > >
> > > Via's and Intel's offerings aside (integrated, not really a
> > > card), all I can come up with is XGI - and they haven't answered
> > > my emails.
> >
> > Is nobody mentioning nv for some obvious reason that I'm
> > embarrassing myself for not knowing?
> >
> > s/nv/matrox/ and repeat.
>
> What started all this was my post... I like to get hardware fully
> supported through open source drivers, by the manufacturer.  If
> NVidia were to open up their drivers including 3D capabilities, I
> doubt I would have even brought it up :)

Ah, gotcha.  Yeah, the nv driver isn't "official," but it'll get you to 
a bash prompt.  :-)

And Matrox?

> Obviously theres some areas that it just can't be done.  The PC this
> is all about, for me, is a new a/v workstation.

Sounds like masochism.