Glenn Enright wrote: > Nvidia dont release the source for this driver, which makes it difficult for > others to patch it, even if they new how the card internals worked ;). As far as I understand, the binary driver itself is not patched. The patching concerns the way it is integrated into your system (e.g. symbols and certain function calls, of course kernel related stuff) -- and there are source files for that. That's what is being compiled by emerge. The problem with the function/symbol pci_find_class has occured before with an older version of nvidia-kernel and was patched successfully. So, I guess it's just a matter of time and patching experience.
But because of the reasons Richard wrote/summarized, it's not looking very good :-/ > Does the xorg nv driver do what you need? Fortunately yes. I can start X an do all 2D-things. For the time being I'll have to live with that. So, I guess my search for some help has come to a dead end. Thank you for all your suggestions and information. Let's hope for better Nvidia support in the future. Sigi -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
