On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 08:48:53 -0600 "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
First, who cares if it's binary. Yes, RS and his group will squawk and yes, I like and use Opensource wherever I can but in some cases such as this it really doesn't matter - the vendor does supply drivers that work and if he wants to protect the portion that is proprietary that's fine with me as it's his.Richard Keech writes:support for 3D capabilities of NVIDIA cards is not open source. youI would view the above quoted words as a political statement. :-)
will need binary-only kernel modules (from nvidia) to make this
work. many report good success with these drivers, however
binary-only drivers should be strenuously avoided. The use of these
drivers has been implicated in many stabiity problems with Linux.
Second, I find that many people do not read the README that Nvidia supplies and hence have problems that can be fixed. The Nvidia readme is a comprehensive, very well done document that lists many of the problems (including the AMD one), what the fixes or workarounds are and contains a lot of detail on how things work. Nvidia is obviously supporting Linux seriously as this document is more than superficial. I have a GF3 TI500 on my Linux system and I read the entire document before I installed. I was prepared to setup my XF86Config, I knew what I did or did not have to have in the kernel and it worked well.
I would never discourage an open exchange of ideas here, but I
disagree with much of the above. It is true that nvidia's linux
driver support is not open source. But ATI's has also done their most
recent driver release as binary only. This means if you _______________________________________________
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