I feel obliged to point out that the open source X11/Xorg "nv" driver works great with Nvidia cards,
at least for basic 2d use - it doesn't support 3d acceleration yet, though. This is probably because
Nvidia has been very good to date about keeping up with their binary driver, and maybe the
developers have been focusing more on getting the newer vendor-unsupported-on-Linux ATI cards up and
running...
All else aside, I understand and accept your wish to run completely open source
:)
-Max
Allen C Brown wrote:
The NVidia specs were never released, even after it was
clearly obsolete. Given a choice I will always buy from
manufacturers who release specs so that an open source
driver can be written.
This is really important if you want to be able to occasionally
update your install/kernel. Otherwise you are hostage to
NVidia deciding they don't care about Linux drivers any more.
I now run Debian. No proprietary drivers. I bought an
ATI FireGL X1. ATI could go belly up tomorrow, but the
2.8 kernel released in 2007 would support it.
--
Best regards,
Max Lemieux
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541-349-3441
iLrn System Administration
Lunar Logic, Inc.
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