tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17758483.post116110334823441246..comments2023-09-11T09:02:15.734+01:00Comments on Mind Booster Noori: You use nvidia drivers? You're 0wn'ed!Marcos Maradohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15899709695854674303noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17758483.post-1161298977296133932006-10-20T00:02:00.000+01:002006-10-20T00:02:00.000+01:00Matrox stopped caring about realtime programmable ...Matrox stopped caring about realtime programmable graphics around 2002 when they launched Parhelia.<BR/><BR/>When I referred to "cutting edge realtime graphics", I meant off the shelf graphics boards that fully support OpenGL GPU programming via GLSL for applications like 3D games.<BR/><BR/>Linux does have some clout in the niche of high perfomance scientific visualization and high end content creation for which there are graphics cards like ATI's FireGL, NVIDIA'S QuadroFX, Matrox's Parhelia and 3D Labs' Wildcat. But guess what? the drivers for these boards (apart from the Matrox one) are also proprietary.<BR/><BR/>The problem these makers face with releasing free and/or open source drivers for their hardware seems to stem from both a fear of leaking their trade secrets to the competition and the amount of patented/unreleaseable code in the drivers themselves.<BR/><BR/>If only the Bitboys (http://www.bitboys.com) hadn't been bought out by ATI, we'd probably have by now a decent 3D graphics board with open drivers for all platforms.<BR/><BR/>For now, enduring proprietary but fully functional Linux drivers for the NVIDIA boards is the only viable solution for my work if I want to continue using Linux as a development platform.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17758483.post-1161288722321825272006-10-19T21:12:00.000+01:002006-10-19T21:12:00.000+01:00I thought that Matrox were the ones having "Graphi...I thought that Matrox were the ones having "Graphics for Professionals"?Mind Booster Noorihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13655245207577274763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17758483.post-1161287707317449852006-10-19T20:55:00.000+01:002006-10-19T20:55:00.000+01:00It's a shame that NVIDIA's boards are the only one...It's a shame that NVIDIA's boards are the only ones with decent support for OpenGL 2.0 and GLSL on Linux. <BR/><BR/>Those of us that need to work in cutting edge real-time graphics and want to use Linux for development don't really have another choice as ATI's drivers are even worse...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com