Rubbish. I could give a dead rat's ass about whether a driver (or any softrware) is GPL/OS or not. Nothing but OS/GPL FUD against NVIDIA or anyone else who chosses to do a binary distribution. Shit we (the linux community) scream for better hardware support from the vendors. NVIDIA ponies up (one of the few companies) and is providing a driver for linux that equals the windows driver in performance and what do we (the linux community) do? Rape them for not doing it "our" way. I'd love to have a driver from HP for my new P1000 Photosmart printer. I'd stuff it onto my box in a second, OS/GPL or not. Why? My shit would work the best with it instead of having to resort to a driver for a printer that hasn't been made for 2 years and getting weak quality. Yeah that is what I want. Off course when I boo t WinME the printer works great. NVIDIA's driver puts to shame any GPLd'd driver out there and I can use one driver for any of their cards. Has anyone ever considereed that to OS/GPL a driver it needs to acutally work and have good specs and documentation? NVIDIA is not a big company and my guess is that they will do the Binary route until they feel comforatble opening up the surce to the OS community. I'm sure they do not want to do that and have the driver suck becuase their code is poorly structured and their specs are inaccurate. I've used enough bad OS/GPL drivers to know that OS/GPL is no magic cure for what ailes you. If that dirver is touched by a non expert or it has bad specs supporting it your fucked. And to those who think OS/GPL menas you get the latest drivers is FUD as well. Check the date on the current Tulip.c that comes with Mandrake 7.2 It says 1998. That driver is under constant updates from Syclid but it does not get into the current kernel distro. Each of us has a choice to use GLP/OS only everything. If that is your choice then that is cool with me, you got to live with yourself, I don't :). IMHO NVIDIA should be given credit for providing the best 3D driver on the market for Linux. That driver was the last hurdle for me to stop using Windows as my main OS and move to linux. I did not sacrafice frame rates or stability and I get to use Linux. I guess I could have spent 250 bucks for a V5500, got the same frame rates as I do on my TNT2 Ultra and be using an OS/GPL dirver. I'll stick with NVIDIA. But that is just me. *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 11/17/2000 at 1:35 PM Tom Brinkman scribbled: >On Friday 17 November 2000 11:45 am, RaEl wrote: >> NVIDIA has their own driver. Very easy to insstall. Just substitute >> XF86Config-4 for XF86Config in the instructions and all should work >> fine. I'm playing Quake3 and Unreal Tournament with no problems at >> all. As far getting a V5500 I ask why? > > http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php3?sid=20001115080820 > > That's why, and not stated strong enough IMO >-- >Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay > > >Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: >Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
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