OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/24995/NVIDIA_Releases_MeeGo-compatible_Video_Drivers_for_Tegra Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 22 May 2013 23:39:52 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Comment by Calipso http://www.osnews.com/thread?482466 http://www.osnews.com/thread?482466 great stuff. If no device gets released with Meego, we will at least have the ability to run it on tegra tablets. High fives for nvidia! Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Calipso) Comments RE: Comment by Calipso http://www.osnews.com/thread?482468 http://www.osnews.com/thread?482468 an India only Meego netbook was release not long ago.
Hopefully Samsung will ship it globally.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/21/samsungs-ultralight-n100-deliver... Edited 2011-07-27 21:07 UTC Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fran) Comments Elocity A7 http://www.osnews.com/thread?482469 http://www.osnews.com/thread?482469 I would love to run this on my Elocity A7 (Tegra 2). It gets very little love from the seller, and I live off of images from XDA. Unfortunately, Dexter, the guy making the images available, was smacked down by the XDA forum folks, and he's abandoned the device. Feature-wise, it is great. It can output HD video via the HDMI port. Nonetheless, I've learned my lesson. Don't buy a device just based on specs - look at the community around the device. I wish I had gotten a Nook Color instead. It is less powerful, but the community around it is great. As it turns out, tablets are mostly good for book and simple games. Oh well, live an learn! Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fretinator) Comments Nvidia http://www.osnews.com/thread?482471 http://www.osnews.com/thread?482471 binary only I assume? Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Not2Sure) Comments RE: Comment by Calipso http://www.osnews.com/thread?482477 http://www.osnews.com/thread?482477
great stuff. If no device gets released with Meego, we will at least have the ability to run it on tegra tablets. High fives for nvidia!


As it stands, "official" MeeGo devices pend on Intel getting good mobile chips out. While we wait for that, it's nice to be able to use reasonable ARM hw for running MeeGo. Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (vivainio) Comments RE: Nvidia http://www.osnews.com/thread?482497 http://www.osnews.com/thread?482497 As usual of course. Still much better than no drivers at all. Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (shmerl) Comments RE[2]: Nvidia http://www.osnews.com/thread?482538 http://www.osnews.com/thread?482538
As usual of course. Still much better than no drivers at all.


I used to feel similarly - but I've come to realize that hardware manufacturers have basically become the decision makers for which OSes live and die... I'm not sure it's "much better" as a result. Thu, 28 Jul 2011 05:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (umccullough) Comments RE[3]: Nvidia http://www.osnews.com/thread?482547 http://www.osnews.com/thread?482547 umccullough,

"I used to feel similarly - but I've come to realize that hardware manufacturers have basically become the decision makers for which OSes live and die... I'm not sure it's 'much better' as a result."

It's worse than that. The binary drivers are usually version dependent (thanks to linus' vision that ABIs are bad).

I maintain a custom linux kernel with AUFS patches and I already have to choose kernels by compatibility with AUFS (which has been rejected by mainline). Luckily I don't need graphics on these kernels, but if I did my initial impression is that it'd be even more difficult finding a combination of kernels/binaries/patches that work together.

It would be nice if there was more kernel API/ABI stability such that compatibility would be less of an issue. Thu, 28 Jul 2011 07:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Alfman) Comments RE[3]: Nvidia http://www.osnews.com/thread?482576 http://www.osnews.com/thread?482576
I'm not sure it's "much better" as a result.


I agree with you. They killed a lot of interesting OSes and their blobs are a big source of frustration. the only solution is a specification for GFX that describes the hardware interface and is device maker independent with a mobile profile. Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fithisux) Comments