Le Ven 31 mars 2006 13:17, Andy Green a écrit :
Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Andy Green <andy(a)warmcat.com>:
>> The existing one seems to have better metrics for assessing
>> compliance, less danger and greater longer-term stability.
>
> Well, maybe. Unless the consequence is that we never reach the mass
> market at all, in which case Very Bad Things are likely to happen down
> the road. Like, no video cards we can actually use at above VESA
> resolution.
I don't see any evidence for this for 2D. The problems all seem to be
to do with 3D acceleration hardware in the past, present, and presumably
in the future. And that in turn, like everything this thread touches,
seems to come down in the end to patents.
No they aren't all related to 3D.
Right now the second DVI head of a radeon card (consumer, not pro card) is
a paperweight, for 3D or 2D. That is, if you stick to open drivers (like
me)
So if you've got a desktop system with two TMDSes, you're out of luck.
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Nicolas Mailhot