[svlug] Nvidia Drivers for RH 9.0

[Marc MERLIN]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 03:09:50PM -0700, Tim wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 12:49:26PM -0700, Richard G. Evans wrote:
> > An old newbie is back asking for help (or information) on step by step
> > procedures for installing Nvidia drivers on a Dell Inspiron 8100 using
> > a Nvidia GeForce 2GO video controller.
> 
> http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_display_ia32_1.0-4349
> 
> Be sure to read the README, which contains detailed instructions:
> 
>   ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-4349/README.txt
> 
> I hope that helps.
> 
> Note: I don't own any nVidia chips, and never will, until they make it
> possible to have feature full Free/Open Source drivers for their chips.

I hope you're not holding your breath because it's not going to happen :-)

Face it, for some hardware, it is very undesirable to show full driver
source, and graphics cards definitely belong to that list.
That's why XF 4.x was redesigned to allow for binary drivers, and honestly
Nvidia has been doing a superb job in keeping up with linux and distros

I'm all about open source, but if the driver is properly written, works, and
is not something that I would be able to fix anyway, I don't really care.
(besides they already have one of the best XF developers maintaining the
driver, so it's not like open sourcing it would help making it that much
better)

Marc
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