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Date:      Wed, 11 Apr 2001 22:53:45 +0100 (BST)
From:      Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
To:        "Juha Saarinen" <juha@saarinen.org>, "Kal Torak" <kaltorak@quake.com.au>, "The Hermit Hacker" <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        "Jonathan Belson" <jon@witchspace.com>, "FreeBSD-stable" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: nVidia Cards /w FreeBSD (3D Acceleration)
Message-ID:  <200104112153.WAA00825@banks.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: Juha Saarinen's message of Thu, 12 Apr 2001 09:44:20 %2B1200

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> Before you lambast Nvidia for wanting to keep its IP
> under wraps, it appears that none of the other video card makers (ATI,
> Matrox) have handed over their "crown jewels" to Open Source developers.
> Nvidia is at least providing an optimised driver for its cards -- Matrox and
> ATI haven't

So how come we haven't even got the XVideo extension available on
GeForce cards, unlike ATI and Matrox?  Sounds fair to lambast NVidia
to me.

-- Richard

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