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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."
NVIDIA has already been supporting linux lately, maybe poorly to some, but they are among very few who give a shit about it, so let them keep fine tuning, eventually it will be something rather beautiful.
Think of how long it took to perfect windows display drivers, they had what 15 years?
Linux is "new" to most people, it'll come in time and this is proof.
Posting useless rant since 2003.
Hardware just isn't up to snuff with ATI along with the impending doom... Doom 3 that is.
Everyone wants the final specs of Doom 3 first.
I know thats what I'm waiting on.
I don't like ATI drivers but they're hardware is always good. Nvidia is the reverse, I've had a few nvidia based cards fail on me in the past but the drivers were always great.
/. is open sources worst enemy.
Very few of these projects have the funding to run a webserver that can withstand a slashdotting.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Get out of your fantasy world.
...6 months later...
As you say, NO vendor provides such drivers. You know what? As long as zealots such as yourself keep making these sort of declerations, hardware companys will continue to avoid Linux/BSD/etc.
Think of the message you are sending to vendors.
Zealot: Hey Support Linux!
Vendor: Urm, okay
Zealot: Great!
Vendor: Here you go!
Zealot: Hey, IT'S NOT UNDER THE GPL! BOYCOTT!
TODO: Something witty here...
Dear lord, when did pragmatism go out the window in favour of this zealous, excessive obsession over "freedom". Christ, do you ask that all cars be free? Or bridges? Or books? No? Then why software?
True; but OTOH there are many network cards, SCSI host adaptors, and so on where the manufacturer has been helpful in providing specifications and the Linux developers have written high-quality drivers. It's these manufacturers that deserve to be praised for 'dedication' (although I'd rather just say that my hardware purchases are influenced by whether free drivers are available).
But free driver releases aren't considered worthy of a Slashdot story - only proprietary ones with their cumbersome workarounds for not coming with source code.
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
I currently have a GeForce2GTS and have tried many of the drivers from NVidia with sporadic stability (yes, I've posted to their forums... no, they haven't been able to help).
I'm seriously considering a Radeon 9100... does anyone know how stable the current drivers from XFree are on this card?
Secondarily, how does the performance compare between the above two cards (under Linux)?
Yes, I do occasionnally use 3D in Linux (I don't use MS-Windows at all)... bzflag and UT mostly.
- Preferences: Solaris 10 (servers), Ubuntu (desktops), Solaris 11 (personal servers) -
It just goes to show why companies are so against the linux desktop. It's users want everything for free.
Proprietary code is not the worse thing the world has seen and its what makes the software world go round. I have no problem with mixing proprietary and free code, and most other linux users feel the same way. We are just happy a company is willing to support linux.
Thank God for Nvidia and their drivers. If it weren't for them I'd have missed out on years of linux gaming. Thank God for Oracle and Id Software etc. If it weren't for proprietary code we would have no decent games, and no decent media support. The next time your running your opensource Mplayer and enjoying some quicktime trailers don't forget to ask where your codecs came from.
You need to get off your high horse and join the 99.999% of us in the real world who just want their apps and games to work and could give a crap about if a driver is proprietary or not.
Some proprietary apps and drivers don't spoil linux, but user with a "give me everything for free" attitude sure does.
Nitpicking to 97% of Linux users out there, but it looks like it's only for the IA32 platform. That rules out my PowerPC. Of course, the card that is under review probably doesn't work on the Mac Platform anyway. *sigh*
That period of being an orphan, in spite of the beauty and the speed, held enough heartbreak and frustration for a lifetime. Really, it was enough, and I can now say with utmost confidence and conviction that it will never, ever happen to me again. And the strength of this conviction is equal to what you will hear when RMS says that he has the source code to his printer driver.
If something is not mine, then I simply won't have it. You call it pointless. I call it experience, tempered by years of pain. It isn't martyrdom to swear you won't be a victim anymore. If anything, it's the opposite.
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