On Thursday 04 May 2006 09:59, S. Schwartz wrote: > 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. >
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