[nylug-talk] Video card situation get a bit more dire

Sunny Dubey
Fri Nov 17 08:44:49 EST 2006


On Thursday 16 November 2006 16:17, jh wrote:
> See this:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/yl6zj7
>
> AMD/ATI to release a combined CPU/GPU.
>
> Now it appears that Reuben's stipulation that you won't be able to get
> to a shell prompt without a closed source module is actually coming
> true. And what a great trojan horse to totally do a DRM lockdown.
>

I assumed this was already partially true due to Nvidiot's binary-only nforce 
drivers for their mobo's ?

(I've avoided such mobos at all costs, and I haven't kept up with the times, 
so I wouldn't know anymore)

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Sunny Dubey

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