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Open-Source NVIDIA Linux Driver Usage About To Become Much More Reliable (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago (3 children)

What does that have to do with needing NVIDIA?

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days 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

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 10 points 6 days ago

The newer versions of HDMI aren't supported on AMD cards due to licencing issues.

[–] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Obviously AMD and Intel don't include HDMI on their cards.

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