Modern Video Cards with Open Specs?

JessLeah asks: "I've been having trouble finding decent, 3D-accelerated drivers for video cards (of late-90s/early-2000s vintage) under Linux. I'd just get a newer card, but it seems like the situation for newer cards is even worse. The market at present seems to be little more than an nVidia/ATI duopoly, and neither nVidia nor ATI have open specifications available for their chipsets. As a result, both of them presently have binary-only, x86-only, Linux-only XFree86 drivers as their sole alternative to Windows. Are there any modern chipsets (with a reasonable cost) that actually have open specifications available online -- or, at a minimum, open-source drivers that can actually compile on things other than Linux/x86" What was the last video card with open specifications that you can remember?

Comments

No there aren't

[Anonymous Coward]

Run Windows if you want to do 3D.

Re:I don't get it.

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh stop your FUD. nVidia still kicks the crap out of ATI both in image quality and drivers.

I should know, I use both ATI and nVidia hardware every single day. I'm telling you, nVidia has been the best for a long, long time.

curious

[cookiepus]

Once you do get drivers for your superduper 3d card on Linux... what are you going to use it for?

-E

Dear Slashdot:

[Anonymous Coward]

As people here on slashdot grow up, outgrow their former sorry excuses for idealism, and begin to grasp basic market realities, I'm beginning to miss the good-old constant whining about the lack of open-source 3d drivers, so I've decided to try to relive it. Can you relieve me of the burden of looking up any of the hundreds of slashdot articles talking about this over the past who-knows-how-many years?