Open-source driver list - Xwindows
This is a discussion on Open-source driver list - Xwindows ; Hi all,
I've been in the market for a new video card for about a
week now. Shopping around I for a chipset that is fully
(or mostly) supported by an open-source driver has proved
to be a challenge.
I've ...
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Open-source driver list
Hi all,
I've been in the market for a new video card for about a
week now. Shopping around I for a chipset that is fully
(or mostly) supported by an open-source driver has proved
to be a challenge.
I've failed to find a web-site that maintains a list of
open-source friendly vendors. Basically a list of chipset
vendors that freely provide documentation for their
products.
Is there such a living document?
I find it very disturbing that the open-source community,
or at least a formidable number of open-source users, have
/openly/ accepted binary-only drivers from vendors such as
ATI and Nvidia!
In my view, this does nothing but encourage other vendors
to adopt this sort of practice with their products as well.
Anyway, off of my soapbox.
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Re: Open-source driver list
patrick wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been in the market for a new video card for about a
> week now. Shopping around I for a chipset that is fully
> (or mostly) supported by an open-source driver has proved
> to be a challenge.
>
> I've failed to find a web-site that maintains a list of
> open-source friendly vendors. Basically a list of chipset
> vendors that freely provide documentation for their
> products.
>
> Is there such a living document?
>
And old pci fx5200 should work with nv driver (open source).
I'm in the similar situation as you are except I need a mobo, cpu and
ram.
I'd buy intel965 to reward Intel for the oss x11 driver they released
recently except
I want ecc ram.
With fx5200 I'd give $70 something bucks to rodrigues v2.0 to have a
kid #7 by Mary Jane
(I'm not anxious to do that, we have enough fat teresas walking the
streets of California
already). So I'm not sure what's the best course of action is.
Radeon X1300 is inexpensive, but is there an open source xorg driver
for it?
If not I'll probably just get a matrox G450 pci.
