Hi!
I'd like to complain about the current situation with the Nvidia drivers.
I think the fact they are not open-source and integrated into the main
kernel is a huge burden for me, and gives me a lot of trouble. I am not a
free software fanatic, but the current way of doing things is wasting me
precious time.
The question is who should I complain to? NVidia supplies the drivers on
their homepage, but claims I should address their OEMs for support. Fact
is: I bought my computer recently with an NVidia GX4 card there and don't
know who my card OEM is. (albeit I may be able to find out). In any case,
I'm not sure this OEM would be clueful enough to deal with a
Linux-pertinent problem that is a bit philosophical in nature.
Finally, I have a problem. When I use an OpenGL screensaver, the X server
crashes and brings me back to command line. It doesn't happen with a
non-OpenGL screensaver, so it's probably the driver's fault. I wish to
know how can I resolve this. It is obvious that the lack of source code
and its proprietary nature make the drivers relatively sub-standard.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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Writing a BitKeeper replacement is probably easier at this point than getting
its license changed.
Matt Mackall on OFTC.net #offtopic.
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