[ILUG] Graphics Card Linux

[Ciaran Johnston]

On Tuesday 15 January 2008 19:30:23 Conor Wynne wrote:
> On 15 Jan 2008, at 15:20, Nick Murtagh wrote:
> > In my experience binary drivers suck and lead to random
> > hangs, but they may be better nowadays.
>
> I never experienced that, and have used them for years, maybe you were
> overclocking or something? Or insufficient cooling?

I have mixed results with the nvidia driver depending on the OS and kernel 
version I am using. On Ubuntu 7.04 the nvidia driver was fine, but it causes 
random lockups on 7.10 - and I can dual boot between the two OS versions so 
this is not a new hardware problem.

> The only company I am aware of that ever OSS'd their drivers was
> matrox, and I don't know if they even exist any more, sure ask a
> search engine.

I believe Intel have open source drivers for a lot of their 3D chipsets
http://lwn.net/Articles/194724/

and IIRC ATI since bought by AMD have been working on OSS drivers - not too 
sure how far advanced this is though.

/Ciaran.