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To: Cogito who wrote (49313)	11/21/2005 7:51:14 PM
From: OrionX	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213186

Allen, You're not wrong. Video drives are not the same kind of Unix device drivers like character or block devices. Talking out of a physical or logical port is one matter, but manipulating the data stream to interact with OS X's higher application layers is not a piece of cake. If Photoshop can't be plainly recompiled and work 100%, and we all know it isn't, then there's no chance a video driver for the GPU will be any different or easier. If anybody has a managed to make a Windows compliant graphics card currently unavailable on OS X work on OS X, I'm sure Apple would love to license that code. And, there are thousands of Mac users looking for that driver and wouldn't mind paying $20 to license that driver to be able to use the brand new cards from ATI or nVidia.