[geeks] Jesus this guy could be me

[Frank Van Damme]

On Saturday 18 January 2003 22:46, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> Open hardware?  Who the hell makes anything reasonably resembling an
> open 3D accelerator?  Certainly not ATI, Nvidia, or Matrox.  Or the
> people who make that Kyro card.  Who makes an open video IO card (well,
> Linux Media Labs makes a rather mediocre one that they price gouge you
> on). About the only open hardware is SCSI and ethernet, and stuff where
> the chip maker will sell the chips to anyone so it wasn't too hard to
> reverse engineer the rest.

Nothing is perfect in this world, but I'm still getting acceleration with 
fairly recent ati cards (8500 radeon) while no one will be able to the same 
for an nvidia card. Well not with opensource drivers at least. 
And Matrox is notorious among linux users for its good opensource support. 

Who are Linux Media Labs? :-)

-- 
Frank Van Damme