On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 12:44 -0500, Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote: > However for the video drivers, as was said in another post to this > thread by Rob, nVidia and ATi are not releasing specs for their > hardware for Open Source drivers due to incarnate battle over > features, price and performance... I would have to assume that an Open > Source driver initiative on at least the kernel end would be > tremendously helpful to prevent lockups and ease debugging, not to > mention that installing their binary X drivers would be much easier, > after all the kernel module pretty much is only a bridge between the X > driver and the hardware, the magic is done in the X driver, not the > kernel gateway (or am I terribly wrong here?) Unfortunately you are wrong. The nvidia kernel module contains a full OpenGL implementation :-P Lee
