Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 17:01:43 +0200
From: Sander <sander@humilis.net>
To: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
Cc: Panagiotis Issaris <takis@lumumba.uhasselt.be>,
       Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no>,
       linux cbon <linuxcbon@yahoo.fr>, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: replacing X Window System !
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David Greaves wrote (ao):
> Panagiotis Issaris wrote:
> > Helge Hafting wrote:
> >> To which the solution is:  buy the cards that work, and screw the rest. 
> >
> > Just out of curiosity: Do you know any currently sold cards that support
> > XVideo, OpenGL and for which open source drivers are available?
>
> Almost all ATI cards :)

A few years ago you could say that, but ATI is not OSS friendly anymore.

These days NVidia supports the OSS community much more than ATI does,
while NVidia used to be the dark side. There is still a lot of space for
improvement though :-)

	With kind regards, Sander

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