Some questions about monitors, graphic cards and drivers
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I am having a hard time wrapping my head around how these three interact with eachother.
The graphic cards need to have drivers (proprietary or free) in order to reach their full potential. But is a graphic card without drivers at all better than none?
Drivers are required. Applications (e.g., a video game) fire high-level directives (e.g., for a video card, draw a half transparent blue triangle from those three 3D coordinates). The driver (in the kernel) translates those directives to commands for the specific device. Without that abstraction of the hardware, writing applications would be tedious and they would be specific to one single set of devices.
Okay, so a graphic card without any driver is equal to having no graphic card at all?
Yes, it does. The same holds for all peripherals. Notice that there are standards though. A generic driver can handle peripherals of different constructors. For instance, for video cards, there is the "vesa" driver... if you are OK with a 800x600 display, no video acceleration, etc.
I see. Is there a list somewhere that shows all the graphic cards that Trisquel have a driver for? Or Linux-libre kernel maybe
Nice!
The "how does it work with free software?" could just as well be read as "how does it work with Trisquel"? :)
I think that should be a pretty safe assumption.
I thought that all Nvidia cards had the same drivers and all the AMD had the same drivers.
And then there was a standard free open source driver that worked with some random cards.
But this is not the case, huh?
Are there being produced any new graphic cards in the free and open source spirit, like the Power CPU?
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