Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 12:00:54 -0500 From: Daniel McRobb <dwm@caida.org> To: Steve Hocking <shocking@hstn.tensor.pgs.com> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NVidia & VA closed source OpenGL Message-ID: <200001201700.MAA49459@arthur.caida.org> In-Reply-To: Message from <shocking@hstn.tensor.pgs.com> of Thu Jan 20, 2000 10:19 CST <200001201619.KAA24706@prg01.hstn.tensor.pgs.com>
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I haven't read any evil into the announcement yet. It included this tidbit: "We believe that exceptional graphics acceleration, with standard programming interfaces and tuned Linux driver support, could be integral to the success of Linux on the desktop," said Brian Biles, vice president of marketing at VA Linux Systems. "We are excited to collaborate with NVIDIA and SGI to help create high performance, standards-compliant products in the Linux workstation space, complementing the work we contribute to the open source community in the Mesa and XFree86 projects." Now granted that didn't come from NVIDIA, but IMHO NVIDIA will lose a large chunk of customers if they stop supporting Mesa and XFree86 (many of whom will move right to Matrox or 3dfx or another chipset). OpenGL 1.2 compliance is important to some of the market, and this looks to me just like VA/NVIDIA/SGI working to get 1.2-compliant product out there for those who need it. There are, after all, several hardware-accelerated 3D alternatives on Linux (which I wish were available on FreeBSD, but such is life). Including those that will soon be OpenGL 1.2 compliant (the stuff from Xi Graphics, for example). I could be wrong, but I just see this as OpenGL 1.2 (tm) vs. Mesa, and it doesn't preclude Mesa, GLX or DRI support from NVIDIA. Daniel ~~~~~~ > Is anyone else feeling rather snaky about this announcement? I'm rather cross > after having bought a TNT2U because of their previous release of a rather > limited open source GLX driver. Has anyone else ported the Voodoo 3 DRI stuff > over to FreeBSD yet? Or failing that, I guess I could buy myself a G400. > > > > Stephen > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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