Re: Fwd: Nvidia GeForce4 card in a Dell laptop

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On Tuesday 22 April 2003 08:06 pm, Elliot Peele wrote:
> I'd like to point out that the nv driver that it packaged in XFree86 is
> maintained by nvidia. There really isn't an 'official Nvidia' driver.
> Its just that one is open source and the other is closed source due to
> some pattent encumbered code. So yes there are featers that the open
> source driver doesn't have, but for most applications it works just as
> well.

To the best of my knowledge, that is false.
The nv driver is maintained by XFree86 developers.

It doesn't contain the features of the NVidia driver because NVidia has 
refused to release specifications for their chips.

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