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minus-squareShadowedcross@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 days agoWhat does that have to do with needing NVIDIA?
minus-squaredavidgro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·4 days agoSomething 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
minus-squareBjörn Tantau@swg-empire.delinkfedilinkarrow-up10·4 days agoThe newer versions of HDMI aren’t supported on AMD cards due to licencing issues.
minus-square9tr6gyp3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-24 days agoObviously AMD and Intel don’t include HDMI on their cards. /s
What does that have to do with needing NVIDIA?
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
The newer versions of HDMI aren’t supported on AMD cards due to licencing issues.
Obviously AMD and Intel don’t include HDMI on their cards.
/s