Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 6th Oct 2006 14:02 UTC, submitted by Michael Larabel
"Open-source support has appeared by default in X.Org 7.1 for R300 generation GPUs. While ATI does not officially support these R300 open-source drivers, this alternative have been gaining momentum with users largely due to the lack of GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap support in fglrx. This extension is needed for the AIGLX desktop eye-candy. These drivers do lack TV-out support and many other features found within ATI's fglrx drivers, but how does its performance compare?"
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2005-07-06
Well, nVidia hasn't published their drivers for ppc yet. We ppc linux users do not have an "emotional" problem with nVidia, we have a "pratical" problem.
Can you name *any* 3D video card manufacturer that makes drivers for a PowerPC based operating system?
Sounds more like an industry and PPC problem than an nVidia problem to me.
Besides, I'm only speaking of the groups of people that have an option of using the drivers and can't. Not hardware that nVidia never advertised as supporting.