[Tfug] RMS protest - last week's news

[t takahashi]

On 5/10/06, Shawn Nock <nock at email.arizona.edu> wrote:
> I use (Read: was forced to buy) a 'nVidia Geforce Go 5650'. To quote the
> boss: "We are a Dell shop choose one of them.... All video options on
> the laptops where nVidia. I use the FOSS 'nv' driver in Xorg (also

i will consider it for my next card, then, thanks.

> flawless). The only thing I gave up when I stopped using nVidia's BLOB
> driver was glx (OpenGL).

i don't need fancy 3d stuff.

> I don't know what OS you are using, but the Linux folks used to have a
> FOSS kernel option to support the Matrox g-series. I believe that you
> could then use the 'fb' (or similar) driver in X to get some

yes, it is linux (sorry bsd person, no offense intended by not
specifying).  the only kernel
option i found in debian is a scaler.  i don't
know what a scaler is and mplayer works ok without it.  i googled fb driver
with no indication that it will run a dvi lcd matrox g550.

> Good luck out there, I'm pulling for you, (Shamelessly stolen from Red

thanks.

to bowie: because i was new to linux and a technically able person, who you
personally have also relied on for help, specified that card for me.  he didn't
realize that dvi was not supported by foss, or didn't care about
proprietariness,
or there were no foss drivers at the time.  i don't know which.

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