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I'd love to see them just publish docs so we can get good drivers instead. Bluescreens from video drivers are still a problem on windows, it is an even bigger
by asdasf 13y ago
I'd love to see them just publish docs so we can get good drivers instead. Bluescreens from video drivers are still a problem on windows, it is an even bigger problem on linux with fewer resources going into making the driver, and fewer people using them to serve as paying testers. Nvidia and ati/amd have both made it very clear that they either do not have the desire or they do not have the resources to make good drivers. So let the open source community do it for you.
- sliverstorm 13y agoI'd love to see them just publish docs They have in the past, and got nothing but flak.
- asdasf 13y agoNo, they haven't. They have released bits and pieces under NDA, but never actual complete docs. That's the problem. Maybe you should have listened a little closer to the "flak" to see if it was actually legitimate problems.
- sliverstorm 13y agoI wasn't nearly as involved in Linux news at the time, and it's too late to go back and change that now. Apologies for not knowing the complete details, and I'd appreciate it if you'd link me. Been having trouble finding the historical details.
- throwaway2048 13y agoATI has released (almost) complete specifications at this point, NVIDIA has released nothing. http://renderingpipeline.com/graphics-literature/low-level-gpu-documentation/ http://renderingpipeline.com/graphics-literature/low-level-g...
- asdasf 13y agoAll you get is register dumps. Compare the ati and intel info on that site. Intel has released full docs. Ati has done as little as possible to be able to say "we released stuff" for publicity purposes.
- TheCraiggers 13y agoDepending on who makes the hardware in the upcoming Steambox, we might finally get some decent drivers for 3D hardware acceleration. I would imagine Valve has the pull to entice AMD, nvidia, or maybe Intel to devote additional resources to it.
- bhassel 13y agoAMD had been releasing documentation for their Radeon GPUs, as well as supporting development of the open source radeon driver for linux (http://www.x.org/wiki/radeon/ http://www.x.org/wiki/radeon/ and http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/ http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/). The open source driver just has nowhere near the resources devoted to it that the proprietary drivers have.