▲ 244 ▼ Open-Source NVIDIA Linux Driver Usage About To Become Much More Reliable (www.phoronix.com) submitted 1 year ago by cm0002@piefed.world to c/linux@programming.dev 32 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (3 children) What does that have to do with needing NVIDIA? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] davidgro@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago Something about AMD not being able to license the HDMI protocol in a way that allows open source code. The main Nvidia driver that people use is proprietary, so it doesn't have that problem permalink fedilink source parent [–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 9 points 1 year ago The newer versions of HDMI aren't supported on AMD cards due to licencing issues. permalink fedilink source parent [–] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago Obviously AMD and Intel don't include HDMI on their cards. /s permalink fedilink source parent
[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago Something about AMD not being able to license the HDMI protocol in a way that allows open source code. The main Nvidia driver that people use is proprietary, so it doesn't have that problem permalink fedilink source parent
[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 9 points 1 year ago The newer versions of HDMI aren't supported on AMD cards due to licencing issues. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago Obviously AMD and Intel don't include HDMI on their cards. /s permalink fedilink source parent