Hello folks,
the Nouveau project works on free/opensource drivers for the NVidia graphics chips. As NVidia continously refuses support to opensource community and keeps necessary specs secret, we are forced reverse engineer their binary-only drivers. This is an very complex and time- consuming job. The Nouveau project has developed an special sandbox for the binary drivers, which us allows sniff it's communication with the chip. Several test programs send specific commands to the driver and record what's send to the chip. This way, spare CPU time can be used for collecting important data - even for non-hackers. We like to ask all NV users to help us by regularily running this testing system. More information can be found on the project page: * http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FrontPage Please also consider signing the petition: * http://www.petitiononline.com/nvfoss/ cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list