Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * Martin Olveyra -- Friday 25 January 2002 04:08: > >>The specifications of nvidia drivers are not available for public so it is >>not posible to do that, but Nvidia distributes its own driver freely and >>works very fine. >>Why can be somebody interested on an open source nvidia driver under such >>conditions? >> > > Because SGI recently sold a couple of 3D-graphics patents to Microsoft and > Microsoft could be interested not to license these to companies that > support anything else than DirectX. So Nvidia could drop OpenGL support for > their cards in the next years and you can throw your card into the bucket ... > given that you want to upgrade your Linux kernel some day.
Neh, most of the hardware designers of Nvidia come from SGI ... No worry about that. Erik _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
