Re: Linux NVIDIA drivers vs. default XFree86 drivers (WAS: RE: Videocard support)

2000-07-29 Thread Nimrod Mesika
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 11:59:17PM +0800, Trent Nelson wrote: On a more technical note, given an accurate port of the kernel device driver (which would be trivial at best), is there any reason these Linux OpenGL drivers associated libraries can't just be branded as 'Linux' object types and

Re: Linux NVIDIA drivers vs. default XFree86 drivers (WAS: RE: Videocard support)

2000-07-29 Thread Ronald G Minnich
actually you're not even getting kernel driver source for linux. What you're getting is an ugly binary blob that looks like the guts of an NT driver, plus enough source stuff to let the kernel hook to the binary blob. It's not pretty. And, as you might expect, it's a little prone to failure. ron