On Tuesday 08 Apr 2008, Dean Hamstead wrote: > the reverse engineered nvidia driver is working now, > > cant recall the name of it. > > is there any reason you cant use with nvidia blob?
Yes: it's a binary blob, i.e. it doesn't include any Source Code. That is a fairly compelling reason not to run it, I think. > the basic 'nv' driver will work for most nvidia cards, but its largely > just rudimentry 2d support. Please define "most". (That's the driver I'm using on my machine at work, which is fitted with an older nVidia card.) I want to be certain that whatever I buy will work correctly with 100% Free software. > there is nvidia drivers for 32bit and 64bit, no need to cut your teeth > on reverse engineered drivers unless you have some compelling reason to > buy an amd64 and run an older card. Unless and until the European Union step in and rule binary-only drivers to be illegal, anyone who uses them is entirely at the mercy of hardware vendors -- vide recent developments with Creative sound card drivers in the Windows world. I care about not being shafted that way myself, and I care about other people not being shafted in future. -- AJS delta echo bravo six four at earthshod dot co dot uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
