-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 22 April 2003 09:23 pm, Elliot Peele wrote: > 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." I stand corrected. The XFree project lists the authors of the driver as: Authors include: David McKay, Jarno Paananen, Chas Inman, Dave Schmenk, Mark Vojkovich Not very clear as to whom they may or may not work for. I believe at least one of the above is a member of the XFree86 core team. (Mark Vojkovich) > 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. So, no Linux driver was ever reverse engineered? ;) - -- - -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+pfrwn/07WoAb/SsRAn25AJkBG5sDz8mRtlna2hQoo8ogXT/t0wCfSn9H xEfRMZ4a0q9R52LfNQ9Osn8= =O4xo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
