I would like to quote Mike Harris: "------- Additional Comment #2 From Mike A. Harris on 2002-12-22 15:37 ------- Please report this to mvojkovich@xxxxxxxxxx also. While we have the source code for the nv driver, we do not have the technical specifications for the Nvidia hardware, and are very likely unable to fix this problem. Nvidia on the other hand, maintains the nv driver, has the specs, and the source, and the knowhow of their hardware. If they aren't aware of this problem it probably wont get fixed, and we'll have to disable GeForce 2 Go support for this release again. Please report upstream so that direct 2 way communication between the driver maintainer and yourself can help get the problem resolved." This is from bug #80210 in Red Hat's bugzilla. Also you managed to contradict yourself because since Nvidia doesn't release hardware specs how could the nv driver be maintained by XFree86 developers unless they also worked for Nvidia, which would mean that the nv driver is maintained by Nvidia. Elliot On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 21:07, Michael Fratoni wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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. > > - -- > - -Michael > > pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt > Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ > - -- > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+pec4n/07WoAb/SsRAs+kAJ9T9nKCUNfkka0+PYMZ1dM5pNS+sgCfd15m > rVvfAW69s8ERQW3A/bJKy6g= > =iZGR > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
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