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

[Joseph M. Gaffney]

On Friday 17 November 2006 08:44, Sunny Dubey wrote:
> 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)

Digg rumor, so take it for what it is....

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Rumor_ATI_to_open_specifications_to_X_org_developers_and_KDE4_news_also

-Joseph M. Gaffney aka CuCullin