[nylug-talk] Video Cards....

[Joseph M. Gaffney]

On Wednesday 08 November 2006 15:25, Ah Pook wrote:
> 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?
>

You know, thats an excellent question.  They've been in my office before to 
talk about their products, primarily for digital signage applications.  
Usually its only the sales people that come in, but I should see if I could 
get a technical contact over there to chat with about it.

> > 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.

Sometimes :)

-Joseph M. Gaffney aka CuCullin