Doing More For An Open NVIDIA
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| Following the open letter to NVIDIA at OpenTheBlob.com that takes aim at
| NVIDIA's lack of a reliable open-source driver, now out is a letter geared
| for NVIDIA's board partners (ASUS, Dell, BFG Tech, etc). This happens to be
| based off of a strategy I discussed before for frustrated ATI customers prior
| to the new driver code-base. If you're interested in taking a stand for an
| open NVIDIA, the page with links and a sample letter can be found here.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjM4Nw
RadeonHD Driver Introduces Major Changes, RV620/635 Support
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| Following a period of relative inactivity in the xf86-video-radeonhd git tree
| over the past few weeks, this afternoon Novell's Egbert Eich had pushed
| forward 55 changes to this open-source R500/600 driver. The AMD Radeon HD
| 3400 and 3600 series are now supported and there are a number of other
| significant changes. The RV620/635 mode-setting support has required the most
| significant work since the R500 series, since all output blocks have been
| altered due to the introduced DisplayPort capabilities. We have already
| tested out this latest code and were left with a positive impression.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=radeonhd_massive&num=1
Related:
OpenTheBlob.com - An Open Letter To NVIDIA
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| We the GNU/Linux community and the undersigned, kindly request that you,
| NVIDIA Corporation, increase your efforts in better enabling the open-source
| community to develop free software drivers for your graphics hardware. Your
| major competitors in this market, AMD/ATI and Intel, have not only supported
| the community in open-source driver development efforts but they are now
| openly releasing hardware programming documentation.
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http://www.opentheblob.com/nvidia/index.php?signatures=normal
PhysX For CUDA, Linux Support A Given?
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| CUDA has been supported under Linux from the start with their graphics driver
| now bundling the CUDA driver and version 1.1 of the CUDA Toolkit being
| supported under Fedora 7, RHEL 3/4/5, SLED 10, OpenSuSE 10, and Ubuntu 7.04
| (binary downloads).
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjMzNA
Is NVIDIA Buying AGEIA Good For Linux?
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| Though with this afternoon's announcement of NVIDIA acquiring AGEIA, we
| wonder how this could impact the level of PhysX support for Linux. As NVIDIA
| actively supports a binary driver for their GeForce and Quadro products, we'd
| hope that once these GeForce+PhysX graphics cards are introduced we will find
| support within the NVIDIA Linux driver. We also hope the future bundling of
| PhysX IP into NVIDIA's GPUs won't hamper their rumored open-source strategy.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjMxOA
NVIDIA Plotting Open-Source Strategy?
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| According to an AIB partner, NVIDIA is planning an open-source counterattack
| against ATI/AMD.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjI3NQ
Interview: The driver behind NASA's Mars Rovers
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| It all runs on a collection of high-end Linux boxes -- nice systems, but
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| commodity PC hardware. Since 3-D visualisation is a big part of the job, the
| Linux boxes sport bonzer NVIDIA graphics cards.
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;563338166;pp;1
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