[Gllug] Graphics cards + open source or contributed drivers?

[Tethys]

Stephen Harker writes:

>The only time this matters (I have found) is when you want to
>play Unreal Tournament 2003 because it uses certain extensions
>(proprietary I think) that are only available with the closed-source
>Nvidia drivers.

Not strictly true. S3TC is available in the ATI closed source drivers
as well. ISTR that there's some preliminary support in the open source
ATI drivers, too, but I haven't looked at it personally, so I could be
wrong.

Tet

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