• Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
    Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.

AMD Open-Sources Drivers

AMD Open-Sourcing Drivers

  • Good Idea?

    Votes: 31 70.5%

  • Bad Idea?

    Votes: 3 6.8%

  • Wait and see...

    Votes: 10 22.7%
  • Total voters
    44
Manny Calavera said:
Was this not announced a while ago though ? Correct me if I'm wrong of course... :eek:
Click to expand...

No, your not wrong... it was, but I still consider it to be pretty big news, and should prove interesting either way....

Personally, I really hope they hold up their end of the deal...

I think it's a "good idea"... I know that there are valid arguments against it, but I think in the end, more positive will come out of this than negative... Just my opinion...
 
why would it be bad? This means I can pick up a 2900 pro in 3 months for nix, not just Linux, but any nix.

note: I am not saying the drivers will be ready in three months, but everyone will have the tools to make the drivers.
 
^ If you read the article, it suggests that this idea would involve AMD disclosing all the inner-workings of their GPUs. This could obviously give some "bright ideas" to nVidia and anybody else willing to sift through the thousands of pages of technical documentation.

Peace
 
This is great, Compiz Fusion should be a lot easier to set up for ATI owners assuming this follows through. Hopefully they'll start to approach nvidia drivers soon, as it's a PITA to use ATI cards right now.
 
Atif said:
^ If you read the article, it suggests that this idea would involve AMD disclosing all the inner-workings of their GPUs. This could obviously give some "bright ideas" to nVidia and anybody else willing to sift through the thousands of pages of technical documentation.

Peace
Click to expand...

I read the article, but you would be an idiot not to think that Nvidia doesn't have a team of people already reverse engineering it. If some people on their free time are able to reverse engineer the r300-400 drivers, and come out with a respectable driver, don't you think that Nvidia could do the same thing?

Also from what is being said is dell or another major OEM was pressuring AMD to come out with better drivers or open source drivers. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=850&num=1
 
sc3252 said:
Also from what is being said is dell or another major OEM was pressuring AMD to come out with better drivers or open source drivers.
Click to expand...

It would only make sense that Dell would want solid open source drivers... they do offer Ubuntu as an installed OS on some of their machines....

And I think AMD knows that nvidia is taking a pretty close look at their drivers.... and apparently, it doesn't bother them..... not yet anyhow....
 
this is the reason Nvidia is ahead of ATI right now. i used to not like Nvidia b/c of their drivers, but now look at them. when it comes to linux, Nvidia is plug and play. it has always been a PITA to get full support going on my ATI cards.
 
This could be interesting if someone adds DX10 support for DX9 cards and XP.
Its a great thing for Linux but I'm on the fence about how good this is for AMD.
 
Nenu said:
This could be interesting if someone adds DX10 support for DX9 cards and XP.
Its a great thing for Linux but I'm on the fence about how good this is for AMD.
Click to expand...

Forgive me if I am wrong... Yet I am very sure that adding DX10 support in XP is not related to video card drivers much at all at this point.. It is related to adding DX10 to Windows XP... Which may be possible at some point, but it would most likely be done by a hacker / coder and not by MS...
 
Derfman said:
Forgive me if I am wrong... Yet I am very sure that adding DX10 support in XP is not related to video card drivers much at all at this point.. It is related to adding DX10 to Windows XP... Which may be possible at some point, but it would most likely be done by a hacker / coder and not by MS...
Click to expand...

The driver can be used to translate DX10 calls into code that can be executed on DX9 hardware.
Effectively you can make the card appear to support DX10.
There will be issues like adding Physics support from scratch.

The alternative is a DX10 wrapper on DX9.
Maybe a hybrid of the 2 if it eases the coding burden and doesnt impact performance. DX10 needs as much performance as possible if running on older hardware

Support doesnt necessarily mean that it displays the same as DX10 but could be a close approximation better suited to DX9 hardware for performance reasons.
This way you can get see DX10 features that dont seem be in DX9 versions of games.

It may be a pointless venture if its too troublesome to code efficiently or if they simply cannot get worthwhile performance.
We can hope though :)
 
would be nice to see what the community could do in improving 3d support for other operating systems, just home nVidaa follows suit and releases some open source drivers.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top