Re: nvidia

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Ed Greshko wrote:
Frank Cox wrote:
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:29:09 -0500
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Except that the people providing the binary do have a reason to care if it works.
Until they decide that it's time to sell you another card and discontinue their
binary blob for the model that you already have.

You mean like when a developer of an opensource project decides he doesn't
want or can't continue to support the project and it closes down for lack of
others picking up the mantle?

Of course nvidia doesn't do what you are suggesting.  They have their legacy
channel as in:

Latest Legacy GPU version (1.0-71xx series): 71.86.01
Latest Legacy GPU version (1.0-96xx series): 96.43.01

As I pointed out yesterday Nvidia is a HUGE company and they make many things besides a VGA card. They are aware that the VGA card be it in a motherboard or a pci card will not work on Linux. So they put some people to work to make drivers for Linux and they ran into problems with the Linux world. The kernel kept changing was one. But they kept at it and we have have good drivers for Linux.

Now the Linux world is mad because Nvidia will not share the source code. Has anyone asked for the source code? There is likely a rule at Nvidia that no software written by them goes out with source code. This is the Microsoft idea.

So let us count our blessings. Nvidia is spending big bucks to make sure their hardware runs with Linux.



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