OT: nVidia driver [was: Wish list] -- understanding the GPU market

[Nicolas Mailhot]

On Mer 8 juin 2005 15:09, Matthew Miller a écrit :
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:22:33AM -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
>> Its more an inevitability than the reverse. Commoditisation means that
>> very
>> soon all the 'must keep secret' IP will be only relevant to real time
>> ray tracing. What happens to the Radeon 9800 when Intel 9xx/VIA/etc
>> graphics
>> on chip are good enough for gamers. Leading-edge video will be for VR
>> nuts.
>
> Yes -- this is what'll save us eventually. Remember when on-board sound
> was
> a joke and if you actually wanted to listen to something besides blips and
> beeps you bought an add-on sound card?

And this card is widely supported (by Alsa...). Nowadays you can almost
choose a card based on the performance of its chips, not the brokeness of
its closed driver (though for some high-end audio stuff, people still
choose harware based on the quality of its windows driver, on a "sucks
less" basis)

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot