Am Mittwoch, 14. Juni 2006 21:41 schrieb Matthew Dillon: > :Is there an official binary driver policy for DragonFly? I understand > :people want the fast GUI and stuff to work, but giving in to the crap > :that companies push on the open source community isn't acceptable in > :my opinion. Its just going to ultimately prolong the problem and > :diminish the efforts of people trying to get companies to open up > :their drivers. > : > :Personally, I would say its good if you don't support the likes of nvidia. > : > :-Kevin > > I am not particularly interested in supporting binary only drivers > considering past experience where the vendors have supplied them, but > then not bothered to keep them up to date or fix bugs or support > new versions of the OS. NVidia has been especially anti-social in > this regard. If we want anything that 'lasts', it has to be native. > > -Matt
For NVidia, may be the driver code for Haiku OS (ex OpenBeOS) could be helpful: http://web.inter.nl.net/users/be-hold/BeOS/NVdriver/index.html Thomas
