nvidia and FC2

Jiri Kanak Jiri.Kanak at Sun.COM
Thu May 20 13:46:29 UTC 2004


Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 07:11 -0500, dalen wrote:
> 
>>Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 10:09 +0100, Chris Jones wrote:
>>>
>>>>>Ask NVIDIA, they're the only one entity who can help you.
>>>
>>>No, they don't want to cooperate with the community of NVIDIA cards'
>>>users.
>>
>>Nvidia does cooperate with nvidia card users by providing drivers for 
>>linux/windows/etc.  The issue of binary -vs- gpl drivers is independent 
>>of the issue of cooperation.
> 
> 
> No it's not. Whith binary only drivers, they're your master.
> They even IMPOSE macrovision on your computer.
> 
> With Free Software drivers (note: not necessarily GPL) you wouldn't be
> having the troubles there are right now (which are only happening
> _once_again_ although for different technical reasons).
> 
> 

if you run "./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run -x" you will get source 
of the driver in  ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1/usr/src/nv.

So is it  binary only driver ? Think not :-)

Jiri





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