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List:       dri-devel
Subject:    Re: [Dri-devel] Good news/The Man returns.
From:       Hetz Ben Hamo <hetz () linuxqa ! com>
Date:       2001-01-10 10:16:31
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Hi,

With all the respect to NVidia and their support for Linux - they're drivers,
although blazingly fast, simply not stable...

I know that because at my job here i swap dozens of cards every day, writing
support for our product - and NVidia's driver are anything but stable - whether
it simply freezes X, not responding well, or simply - not stable..

I'm not trying to flame anyone here - but the simple truth is that the DRI
drivers are WAY more stable, more supported and with lots less bugs..

Just my opinion...

Hetz Ben Hamo
Hardware Research dept.
Aduva Inc.


Forge wrote:
> 
> Again, I apologize. I in no way meant to imply that the NVidia drivers were
> in any way better than DRI. I understand completely that the DRI is a work
> in progress, and never meant to slight the work done by the DRI developers.
> I truly believe that Nvidia's drivers are evil, in a way, because of their
> closed-source nature, and I can't wait for the day that DRI begins to really
> whip NV's butt, and the NV developers wail that they didn't have the massive
> support and development energy that the DRI provides. Just about every day I
> pray the tech gods will make a way for NV to fully open source their drivers
> and their card info, and that they'll get into the DRI along with everyone
> else.
> 
> All I meant by my comments was that NV obviously dwelt upon linux Q3A as the
> cornerstone of their development, and having the fastest linux Q3A around
> was obviously a major goal for them. I feel their driver is lacking when
> compared to the DRI's, as the DRI is optimized for pretty much everything,
> while NV's driver has some fairly major incompatibilities. I feel that if
> anything can get the DRI up to NV's level of *optimization* (not
> performance, the NV hardware's raw speed makes that unlikely), it would be
> contributions from the man that wrote the game.
> 
> Please forgive any implied slight against the DRI developers, it was
> thouroughly NOT my intention to do so.
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