Lee Revell wrote:
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
at least the file sizes imply that you are right.
i can guess why they have put it in there ...
but this does change the light in which the driver shines ...
Lee
