On Thursday 06 February 2003 11:19, brett holcomb wrote: > Do you mean Nvidia's chips? If so they, like others (ATI) > are not "fully" open source as part of the driver package > is binary.
I was refering to the nForce chipset based mother boards. I'm not blaming Nvidia one bit. I believe they have the right to protect intellectual property My worry was if I reinstall on an nForce based board, will I be able to get my on-board nic running or will I need to add another nic untill Ica emerge the nvidia drivers. A real life saver might be to have the nforce nic driver on the live CD, though that might be a sticking point. >Once can't blame them if they want to keep > part of thier special informaton secret. However, what > difference does it make - at least for Nvidia? The have > provided timely updates and fixes and they work under > Linux. They have a unified driver platform meaning the > drivers work on different boards so you don't have to > search a list of 50 gazillion drivers to find the one you > want. In addition the docs - mainly the Readme - are very > through and go into a lot of detail about how things work > and how to make them work. I agree that they do a good job of updating their drivers. I only wish VIA paid as much attention to Linux users. > I'd like to have nothing but open source on my system but > there are some things where it is not yet practical. > Video drivers are one area, apps like Crossover, VMware, > etc. are not opensource but may be neccessary for people > since Wine can't do what they will and people still need > to get a job done. Thanks for your input. > On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 08:47:58 -0500 > > Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Thanks, all, for your input. I got some boards to check > >out but what I was > >really after were comments on the nForce chipset boards. > >I heard somewhere > >that the chipset drivers are not open source. Is this > >true? -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
