On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Chris Penn <cantorm...@gmail.com> wrote: > NVIDIA Drops Their Open-Source Driver, Refers Users To VESA Driver > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_kills_nv&num=1 > > > WOW, really bad news Linux. Nvidia can go screw themselves. > > "Nvidia has announced they are dropping this open-source support for > future GPUs and really ending it altogether. Nvidia's recommendation > is to just use the generic X.Org VESA driver to navigate their way to > nvidia.com so that they can install the proprietary driver." > > "Our advice to owners of NVIDIA GPUs running Linux is to use the VESA > X driver from the time of Linux distribution installation until they > can download and install the NVIDIA Linux driver from their > distribution repositories or from nvidia.com."
Apparently, the xf86-video-nv driver provides just a basic set of features, much like the vesa driver, just enough for the user to go to nvidia.com and download their own driver. I'd be worried if nvidia didn't have a driver at all for linux. They not only *do* have a linux driver, but it also works pretty damn well. It'd be different if they allocated resources to linux like the people from Adobe (rumor says their linux flash development has *1* person on it) such as to making the driver rather unstable in 64bit platforms or something like that. It's definitely interesting to see the people from the Nouveau project keep progressing as they are, but I think that eventually nvidia will go after them, because the project is entirely based on reverse engineering of proprietary content. -- Dante _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
