[Dri-devel] NVidia Driver Source

2001-10-05 Thread Johannes Prix
Dear DRI developers, I read in the FAQ, that NVidia provide their own binary closed source drivers. Yet visiting the Nvidia homepage driver section I find, that there are not only binary drivers for several distributions, but also a source rpm and a source tarball for those interested.

Re: [Dri-devel] NVidia Driver Source

2001-10-05 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* Johannes Prix ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Dear DRI developers, I read in the FAQ, that NVidia provide their own binary closed source drivers. Yet visiting the Nvidia homepage driver section I find, that there are not only binary drivers for several distributions, but also a source rpm

Re: [Dri-devel] NVidia Driver Source

2001-10-05 Thread Daryll Strauss
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 05:36:49PM +0200, Johannes Prix wrote: I read in the FAQ, that NVidia provide their own binary closed source drivers. Yet visiting the Nvidia homepage driver section I find, that there are not only binary drivers for several distributions, but also a source rpm and a

Re: [Dri-devel] NVidia Driver Source

2001-10-05 Thread Mike Westall
The NV source is their kernel driver. This basic function of this routine is to manage DMA transfers of buffers full of graphics commands to the board. This is a very small piece of code that exposes almost nothing of the architecture of the graphics engine. The code that actually builds the

Re: [Dri-devel] NVidia Driver Source

2001-10-05 Thread Adam K Kirchhoff
The only source files that nVidia provides are very limited files for compiling the necessary kernel driver (which, from what I understand, contains very little info regarding nVidia's hardware). The source rpm they have for NVIDIA_GLX is nothing more than the compiled libraries and X