NVIDIA's Latest CineFX Card Under Linux

Nvidia Lacky writes "Ran across a new article from LinuxHardware.org that goes through NVIDIA's new driver release and also takes a first look at a CineFX-based NVIDIA card, the Quadro FX under Linux. Should be a good read for those that have been frustrated with Linux drivers in the past or that are looking to get a new workstation video card."

Comments

Re:Nice, but not really a positive thing.

[Erwos]

That vendor doesn't exist, sorry. Matrox dropped the ball with Parhelia, and S3/VIA has never had an accelerated DRI driver to the best of my knowledge.

Here's the problem: nVidia and ATI make professional and consumer versions of their cards with the same hardware. The only difference is a resistor telling the BIOS which one it is. The _drivers_ are what tell the card to use certain features. While I'm not sure exactly how much is BIOS, and how much is driver, I'm betting having access to the driver source gives you a way to enable those professional features on the consumer cards.

Hence, not only are there no vendors like you want, but it becomes increasingly unlikely that they will pop into existence. Sorry.

-Erwos